IDEALISM QUOTES
quotations about idealism
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You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
HENRY FORD, remarks in court, July 1919
We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.
BARACK OBAMA, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009
It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac.
Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Narcissus in Chains
The idealists give us much on which to feed, but if it were not for the utilitarians, they would starve us all.
If ideals mean nothing ... then we are just animals.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Narcissus in Chains
Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follow this ideal revealed to the mental vision, whoso seeks to attain to conformity with it, will find it enlarge itself, and remove from him. He that follows it will improve his own moral character, but the ideal will remain always above him and before him, prompting him to new exertions.
WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE, The Blazing Star
Let us reach for the world that ought to be -- that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls.
BARACK OBAMA, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than the basement.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.
WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE, The Blazing Star
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