Happiness too is inevitable.

The actual well seen is ideal.

Leadership is Idealism in Action.

Our ideals are our better selves.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Idealism doesn't prevent problems.

Idealism has devolved into madness.

Without a vision the people perish.

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

Idealism is the highest form of reason.

Don't look back, you can never look back

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

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

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

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

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

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

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

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

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

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

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

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.

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

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

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

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

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

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

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

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