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“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth”
Albert Einstein
“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism”
Winston Churchill
“I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.”
Mae West
“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.”
Alexander Haig
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
Samuel Ullman
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.”
James Naismith
“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.”
Carl Schurz
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.”
Victor Hugo