Top 1183 Ideals Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.

I don't think or write from big ideals.

There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be the case even if the corporeal element were as pure and superior as the substance of the spheres ; how much more must this be the case with our dark and opaque body. However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between God and us.

Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother.

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs.

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as we insist on a standard of life that is so high above all the rest of the world, we're going to have to pay for our standard of living with a lot of blood. I think we ought to re-examine the fact that Jesus was a pauper, and we should be committing ourselves to a very humble, simple way of life.

Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because it's optimistic, but because it can't take ideals seriously in the first place. The prevailing attitude is Absurdism. A postmodern magazine may be irreverent, but not bitterly irreverent, for it's not purposefully irreverent; its aim is indiscriminate, because everyone is equally ridiculous. And anyway, there's no moral basis for passing judgment. Just sit back and enjoy the show.

If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true happiness and joy. Faith does not run counter to your highest ideals; on the contrary, it elevates and perfects those ideals. Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than Christ.

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

For me, I don't have a loyalty to a set of ideals.

I have no set ideals for a partner or a husband.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

Lost my ideals in that tunnel of time.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

I've felt this real need to ground my work in my ideals.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

American ideals are superior to countries all across the world.

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.

There is one great truth in western politics that I have been able to see, and that is this: The more left wing your political ideals are, the more naive a person you are likely to be. The more right wing your political ideals are, the more evil a person you are likely to be. Choosing a political standpoint is largely a matter of deciding which failure as a human you are more comfortable with.

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.

It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

Ideals are the world's masters.

Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

It's been years, but I still say that I went out with the same progressive values and liberal ideals that I went in with. I made a couple of mistakes, I will honestly admit. In retrospect, there are a few votes I wish I could take back. But, through it all, I kept my support for organized labor, I kept my support for income equality, I kept my support for making sure that kids that come from poor families have access to education. So, yes, I still believe that you don't have to give up your ideals and go along. One person can still stand up and make a difference.

I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.

We're a nation of hope, of high ideals.

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.