If we are unwilling to let our ideals cost us anything, our ideals aren’t worth anything.
Ideal - Idealists Quotes
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
No human being, and no society of human beings, ever did, or ever will, come to much, unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.
We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.
Do not use that foreign word ‘ideals.’ We have that excellent word ‘lies.’
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Ideologies emerge where doctrines are degraded and vulgarized and when an element of belief enters into them. However that may be, it has long been known that some ideologies are compatible with passive behavior, but most of them are active – i.e., they push men into action. Moreover, to the extent that members of a […]
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
