The idealist is incorrigible. If he is turned out of his heaven, he makes an ideal out of his hell.
Ideal - Idealists Quotes
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens – I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people – America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
We are inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
An uncompromising ideal gives one a sense of uncomfortable satisfaction.
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
For high ideals are like the stars that light the sky above… You cannot ever reach them, but lift your heart up high And your life will be as shining as the stars up in the sky.
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin […]
I am everlastingly angry at those who assert vociferously that the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter are nonsense because they are unattainable. If those people had lived a century and a half ago they would have sneered and said that the Declaration of Independence was utter piffle. If they had lived nearly a thousand […]
Idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.
