19 Inspiring Quotes about
If I wasn’t idealistic, there wouldn’t be anything worth fighting for.
(Mik Everett)
belief in, and pursuit of, noble purposes or goals
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work.
(John Wooden)
Life without idealism is empty indeed.
(Pearl S. Buck)
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.
(Jon Stewart)
…idealism is not enough – you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
(Richard Stallman)
Ideals are like stars. We will not succeed in touching them with our hands, but by following them, like the seafaring man on the ocean, we will reach our destiny.
(Carl Schurz)
An ideal that cannot be implemented is futile.
(Scott Sumner)
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst.
(Thomas Sowell)
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
(Claude McKay)
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
(Sidney Hook)
Much that passes for idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love for power.
(Bertrand Russell)
Idealism doesn’t prevent problems.
(Amy Morin)
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
(Neil Kinnock)
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
(Herbert Hoover)
The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism.
(Rem Koolhaas)
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
(John Galsworthy)
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you.
(Don Henley)
…life is a balance between idealism and realism.
(Peter Hook)
I’m an idealist without illusions.
(John F. Kennedy)
