Ideals are the world's masters.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
Gillian Jacobs
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Walter Lippmann
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.
Juliette Gordon Low
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
Herbert Read
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore Roosevelt
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Bertrand Russell
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
Mae West
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
John Boehner