Ideal Quotes

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

“To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.”

“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.”

“Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.”

“Ideals are the motivators of the soul.”

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

“We did not act out of blind hatred, not out of bloody desire, but out of the will to found an empire of light, beauty and reason.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“The people have never failed in any great crisis to wrest control from the representatives of greed and selfishness and reconsecrate the country to the founders' ideals.”

“A constitution is a statement of ideals, and it is a source of inspiration.”

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

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

“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.”