To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
Major Taylor

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Jim Ryun

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicolson

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.
Juliette G. Low

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
George Takei

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Naomi Wolf

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
Judith Martin

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
Clara Zetkin

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
Marian Anderson

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
Karel Capek

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
Norman Douglas

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
Roger McGough