(586 quotes found)
“Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.”
Emma Goldman
“When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.”
Marian Anderson
“Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal”
William Allen White
“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
“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
“If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.”
Louis Lecoin
“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.”
William Penn
“Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.”
William Irwin Thompson
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