Ideals Quotes

"You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream." "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. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contempti" "A patriot is not someone who condones the conduct of our country whatever it does. It is someone who fights every day for the ideals of the country, whatever it takes." "The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals." "America is an idea, an idea that’s stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant" "Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles" "Emotionally, I have no picture-book ideas about love." "We all have a contract with reality that’s bound by trust; the less realistic our ideals are, the more we tend to misinterpret our surroundings." "We are all ready to be savage in some cause" "In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival." "Our civilization depends critically on the idea of at least one positive truth" "Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest ideal, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth " "Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. "