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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.
Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.
My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.
Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.
The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
Democracy or politics done without values and ideals is dangerous for the country.
American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.
When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.
If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.
I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.
Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Our privacy, our rights as citizens - these are ideals that we Americans hold very dear.
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.
America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.
Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.