Quotes about Ideals
The other parties campaign for parliamentary seats, more or less. We campaign for our principles!
— Abraham Kuyper
Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good.
— Joseph Heller
Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
— Joyce Meyer
Our 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
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to the future for blacks is a commitment to America and its ideals of freedom, personal responsibility, the free enterprise system, and moral principles.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.
— Mark Twain
Men and times change-but principles-never.
— Grover Cleveland
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
— Epicurus
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
— Albert Einstein
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
— Stephen Covey