Top 135 Idealist Quotes & Sayings

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

I'm a cynical idealist.

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.

She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

I'm an idealist.

I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.

No one more cynical than an idealist.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of... What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist... If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct.

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

I wanted to do comedy because I left Malaysia and went to America. I got bitten by the Western, idealist, opinionated, democracy bug.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

I am an idealist, which can be tiring.

Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

I am kind of an idealist but I became a DUP member because I believe politics should have a footing in harsh reality.

For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

I think perhaps I'm a bit of an idealist.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.