The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. – Stanley Baldwin
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. – William F. Buckley
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. – Albert Camus
The actual well seen is ideal. – Thomas Carlyle
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. – Malcolm De Chazal
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. – Sir Winston Churchill
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? – Eliza Cook
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. – Calvin Coolidge
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. – Henry Ford
Idealism increases in direct proportion to ones distance from the problem. – John Galsworthy
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. – Emma Goldman
An idealist believes the short run doesnt count. A cynic believes the long run doesnt matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. – Sydney J. Harris
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. – Francis Herbert Hedge
Ideals are the worlds masters. – Josiah Gilbert Holland
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. – Herbert Hoover
We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. – A.E. Housman
Dont use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies. – Henrik Ibsen
