Ideals Quotes

Life only makes sense when our highest ideal is to serve Christ!

The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.

It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

American ideals are superior to countries all across the world.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal