IDEALS

Related Subjects: Character, Faith, Goodness, Honor, Principle

1. Our ideals are our better selves.—BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
   

2. An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.—HENRY FORD
   

3. People talk a great deal about idealizing nowadays, whatever that
   may mean.—MRS. GASKELL, Cranford
   

4. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the
   problem.—GALSWORTHY
   

5. Be it said to his [Russell Sage] credit that he was unshakenly faithful to his sordid ideals.—GUSTAVUS MYERS, History of the Great American
   Fortunes
   

6. Ideals are like the stars—we never reach them, but like the mariners on the sea, we chart our course by them.—CARL SCHURZ
   

7. When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter.—LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
   

8. To nurse a blind ideal like a girl.—TENNYSON, The Princess
   

9. Though vanquished, those who lived before the time was ripe have found significance in the fulfillment of a timeless ideal; for an idea is quickened to life in the real world only through the endeavors of those who conceived it where none could witness the conception, and were ready for its sake to advance along the road to dusty death.—STEFAN ZWEIG, The Right to Heresy
   

10. When the ideals of one generation have lost their fire, their zest, their vivid tints, it is enough for a man (or woman) equipped with strong powers of suggestion to declare peremptorily that he and he alone has discovered the new and true formulas, and myriads will confidently accept the teachings of the nth Messiah.—STEFAN ZWEIG, The Right to Heresy