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An
ideal cannot wait for its
realization to prove its validity.
George
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There
is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge
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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals
because
they seem so
absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them,
because in spite of
everything I still believe that people are really good
at heart. I simply can't build
up my hopes on a foundation
consisting
of confusion, misery, and death. I see
the world gradually being
turned
into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy
us, too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet,
if I look up into
the
heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty
too will
end,
and that peace and tranquility will return again.
Anne Frank
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People who have never
had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in
a better state than the people who allow the circumstances of life to
break their ideal. To fall beneath one's ideal is to lose one's
track in
life; then confusion rises in the mind, and that light which one should
hold
high becomes covered and obscured, so that it cannot shine out
to light one's path.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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
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Apathy can be overcome by
enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be
aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination
by storm,
and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into
practice.
Arnold Toynbee
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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
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The
ideals which have
lighted me on my way
and time after time given
me new courage to face
life cheerfully, have been
Truth, Goodness, and
Beauty. . . . The ordinary
objects of human endeavor --
property, outward success,
luxury -- have always
seemed to me contemptible.
Albert
Einstein
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No
man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without
enemies.
Daisy
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advertisements.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that
which is desirable in that which is possible.
Walter Lippman |
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We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral
improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs
us on to higher and better things.
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| The true ideal is not opposed to the
real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
James Russell Lowell |
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What
we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
H.F.
Hedge |
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It
is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history
is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the
lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of
hope.
Robert
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Dream lofty
dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become.
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be;
your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen |
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be
prosperous.
Henry Ford |
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Idealists
are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds.
They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Emma
Goldman |
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We are born
predestined idealists, for we are born to act.
To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in
affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott |
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You
don’t get old from living a particular number of years: you get
old because
you have deserted your ideals. Years wrinkle your skin, renouncing
your
ideals wrinkles your soul. Worry, doubt, fear, and despair are the
enemies
which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we
die.
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Our
ideals resemble the stars; you will not succeed in
touching
them with your hands. But
like seafarers on the desert waters,
you choose them as your guides, and
following them you will reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz
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