Ideal Quotes

“Our ideals are our better selves.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Music represents the highest of all ideals.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”