Top 219 Idealistic Quotes & Sayings

Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

It was an idealistic vision that generation had.

Being a good police officer is one of the most difficult, dangerous, idealistic jobs in the world.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.

Supergirl is this unattainable, idealistic optimist of an alien, and all of us can escape into her world, and she always saves the day.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.

I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

I think what you are supposed to be when you are young is idealistic and passionate.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think is right.' 'You don't do that anymore?' 'There are questions I don't ask anymore.

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

I have an idealistic approach to acting. I want to be great at it, but you can't be great if the scripts are not there and the director doesn't know what he's doing.

Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

I've got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life.

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.

War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.

I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship.

Superman' was created at a time when we needed some idealistic, perfect person to aspire to, which is why he is so flawless.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

I'm idealistic so my life outlook is to never give up. Even if something seems absolutely impossible, I will run as hard as I can go.

I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.

We're all idealistic when young.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I did a lot of campaigning.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

For so long, I have been an outsider because of my size. And I think that fashion has always, in some way, catered to celebrities or to a thinner idealistic model.

It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.

There was this kind of wackiness that was really embraced and put on a pedestal. It was before the millennium. We were envisioning a future that was mostly idealistic. I think that came crashing down a little bit in 9/11, or a lot. There is something about Portland that does seem to still exist in this total idealistic world and total idealistic mind frame, and I think that's what Dream of the '90s is talking about.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

In the 70s Sweden was innocent, but we've lost that. Society has become less idealistic and everything is about how much money you have in your wallet.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.