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• A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Expectations, Ideals, Life, Love

  Tags in Responsibility, Duty, Purpose, Meaning

• I’m doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I’m really grateful to have something that I’m passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Commitment, Ideals, Service

  Tags in Purpose

• It’s time for greatness — not for greed. It’s a time for idealism — not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Ideals, Justice, Service

  Tags in Greed

• A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back — but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Commitment, Ideals, Service

• However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Ideals, Life

  Tags in Poverty, Simplicity, Credo, Creed

• Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Compassion, Equality, Solidarity, Freedom, Labor, Community, Creed, Credo

• In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

  Unknown

  Topics in Friendship, Ideals, Spirituality

• To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world — that I am able to change it in positive ways.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Topics in Goal, Ideals, Success

  Tags in Change/Growth, Effectiveness, Values

• At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Ideals, Politics, Religion, Suffering

  Tags in Extremism, Stupidity, Evil

• We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Ideals, Life, Suffering

  Tags in Ethics, Values, Meaning

• I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy, Ideals, Politics, Trust

  Tags in Freedom

• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Topics in Democracy, Ideals, Politics, Trust

  Tags in Government, Values, Freedom

• We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life

  Edwin Markham

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Ethics

• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  Walter Lippmann

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Understanding, Imagination

• All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.

  Unknown

  Topics in Ideals, Love, Politics

  Tags in Nonviolence, Jean Goss, Violence

• The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour — property, outward success, luxury — have always seemed to me contemptible.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Beauty, Ideals, Success, Truth, Vision

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Greed

• There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Topics in Ideals, Politics

  Tags in Winning

• Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

  William C. Menninger

  Topics in Ideals, Kindness, Service, Success, Wisdom

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

  John Ruskin

  Topics in Art, Ideals, Positive, Truth

  Tags in Seeking, Study, Reality

• Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Topics in Future, Ideals, Religion

  Tags in Reverence, Worship, Creed, Credo