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• The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.

  Patricia Hampl

  Topics in Future, History, Ideals

  Tags in Hope

• Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Destiny

• Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

  Don Quixote

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Hope

• The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer…

  Moncure D. Conway

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Dreams

• By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Topics in Belief, Ideals

  Tags in Imagination

• Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Feeling

• And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Family, Ideals

• The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Democracy, Ideals

  Tags in Faith, Ideas

• If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

  Thomas Mann

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Possessed, Smell

• However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Illusions, Common Sense, Hope

• Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Injustice, Action, Hope

• I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.

  Carl Sandburg

  Topics in Ideals

• Our ideals resemble the stars, which illuminate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.

  Carl Schurz

  Topics in Ideals

• Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Attitude, Ideals

• Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

  David Ogilvy

  Topics in Expectations, Ideals

• Go put your creed into the deed,Nor speak with double tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Advice, Ideals

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Creed, Credo

• Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

  Norman Douglas

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Advertising, Nations, Adversity

• For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or “consciously” desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Intuition

• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Judgment