The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ideals are the world's masters.
Our ideals are our better selves.
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.
A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.