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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
“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.”
Carl Schurz
“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.”
Swami Vivekananda
“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
“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
“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”
Anne Frank