Ideals Quotes

Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.

We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.

America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.

Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...

We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope. For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

We are committed to a world in which we keep America safe, but we recognize that our power doesn't just flow from our extraordinary military but also flows from the strength in our ideals and our principles and our values.

Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms... That's how we will advance and uphold our ideals.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to exercise freedom, that this is not a government that allows you to give, that allows you to explore, and doesn't dampen your own creativity - in the broadest sense - with a lot of dictums or dogmas or restraints. So, insofar as we can remain a free country that allows for the interplay of personal energies. I think this is still a country that is not only working towards a dream, but actually is the dream in action.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.

Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctnaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world.