Ideal Quotes

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

“Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.”

“The United States is not just a place. It's an idea.”

“Worship is the act of the soul aspiring towards its own ideal.”

“I'm a Republican, and I believe in the Republican ideals of liberty, personal responsibility, and a strong national defense.”

“To have an ideal is a luxury, but to have an ideal and not to live up to it is a misery.”

“It is idle to expect a people to rise higher than the ideals of its leaders.”

“To live without ideals is to live without a reason for living.”

“We were human beings fighting for a human cause.”

“Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.”

“The study of law is sublime, because it is the study of justice. It is the study of that which is not, but should be.”

“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.”

“We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.”

“The ideal publisher is a man of letters, with a keen business instinct.”

“The trouble with ideals is that they are so often ideals of other people.”

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

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

“A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.”

“The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.”

“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.”