Ideals Quotes

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Maya Angelou

Men, Prepared, Accomplish

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

May, Give, Living

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Sai Baba

Live, Around, Values

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Barack Obama

Great, Christian, Nation

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama

Love, Freedom, Patriotism

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

Men, Live, Higher

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

Movies, Young, Lives

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney

Live, Children, Feelings

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
Mae West

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
Ron Paul

Good, Through, Far

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

Good, Heart, Everything

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure, Forget, Principles

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing, Real, Wrong

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
Mitt Romney

Spiritual, Moral, Meaning

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, American, Mistake

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Deep, Feeling, Cannot

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony

Money, Children, Rich

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

Good, Heart, Everything

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

Time, Able, Shall

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Bertrand Russell

Fate, Seems, Destroys

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. Truman

Faith, Great, Future

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.
Noam Chomsky

Freedom, Human, May

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Strength, Alone, Two

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
David E. Price

Live, Justice, Help

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. Wilson

Deep, Christian, Others

Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Carroll Quigley

Two, Idea, Left

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
H. P. Lovecraft

Fire, Create, Pure

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.
Deepak Chopra

Life, Talk, Fairness

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
James Naismith

Strong, Mind, Body

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