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“People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.”
Douglas MacArthur
“An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.”
Sacha Guitry
“A nose which varies from the ideal of straightness to a hook or snub may still be of good shape and agreeable to the eye.”
Aristotle
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble”
Helen Keller
“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.”
Harold Nicolson
“Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.”
Walt Disney
“The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.”
Walter Lippmann
“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”
Mark Twain
“Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.”
Emma Goldman
