Ideal Quotes

“The ideal of a college is an institution that has a moral character.”

“The function of an ideal is not to be realized, but to serve as a guide.”

“Our ideals are our better selves.”

“My politics are not an aberration. They are a logical extension of the democratic ideals of this nation.”

“The American idea is a splendid and fragile thing.”

“To be a revolutionary, you have to be a romantic.”

“It is possible to love America, and to insist that America live up to its ideals.”

“The soul of a nation is renewed by the austerity of its great ideals.”

“First, know thine own ideal... and stay true to it.”

“It is the spiritual unity of purpose and ideals which sanctifies a nation.”

“Home economics stands for the freedom of the home from the dominance of things and their due subordination to ideals.”

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

“The problem with being a man is that you can't really be a man until you're dead. It's an ideal that can't be achieved.”

“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”

“Pledge allegiance to the ideals of this country, not to a person.”

“The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments.”

“A rage for the perfect, the absolute, the symmetrical, the unpolluted.”

“Every revolution, and even every war, creates illusions and is conducted in the name of unrealizable ideals.”

“Objectivity is a complicated ideal, but the pursuit of it is essential.”

“Music represents the highest of all ideals.”