“The actual well seen is ideal.”
“Ideals are the worlds masters.”
“Idealist: a cynic in the making.”
“Our ideals are our better selves.”
“The enemy of idealism is zealotry.”
“Saddle your dreams before you ride em.”
“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.”
“There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.”
“The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.”
“Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.”
“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”
“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.”
“I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
“The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.”
“When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.”
“Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.”
“Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?”
“Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”
“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.”
“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.”
“The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.”
“A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.”
“What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.”
“A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.”
“Don't use that foreign word ''ideals.'' We have that excellent native word ''lies.''”
“When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.”
“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”
“You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.”
“The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.”
“The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.”