Ideal - Idealists Quotes

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.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

One has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit: divorced from it, they remain barren.

Idealists give invaluable service; they give the distant view, which makes progress, as it makes a walk, exhilarating.