Best 226 quotes in «idealism quotes» category

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Don't look back, you can never look back

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Happiness too is inevitable.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Idealism has devolved into madness.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life, that '60s sense of optimism and hope.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.