What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
Ideal - Idealists Quotes
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be.
When a man forgets his ideals, he may hope for happiness, but not till then.
If you believe in an ideal, you don’t own it, it owns you.
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is 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.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
If we are unwilling to let our ideals cost us anything, our ideals aren’t worth anything.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
No human being, and no society of human beings, ever did, or ever will, come to much, unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.
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.
