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Our ideals are our better selves.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
-Mikhail Bakunin
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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
-Stanley Baldwin
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
-William F. Buckley
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
-Albert Camus
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The actual well seen is ideal.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.
-Willa Cather
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
-Malcolm De Chazal
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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
-Eliza Cook
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The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.
-Charles Horton Cooley
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
-Calvin Coolidge
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
-Henry Ford
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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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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
-Anne Frank
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-John Galsworthy
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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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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
-Sydney J. Harris
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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
-Francis Herbert Hedge
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Ideals are the worlds masters.
-Josiah Gilbert Holland
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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.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
-Herbert Hoover
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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
-A.E. Housman
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When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
-Libby Houston
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Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies.
-Henrik Ibsen
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Books about Idealism
