英语格言警句_Ideals_(I1)

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

- Henry David Thoreau

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

- Rosa Parks

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its promise in practice.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice creates a dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

- Helen Gahagan Douglas

Domestic policy can only defeat us. Foreign policy can kill us.

- John F. Kennedy

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

- Noam Chomsky

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

- James Ishmael Ford

Shared risks, shared burdens, shared benefits -- it's not only a good motto for NATO, it's also a good prescription for America's role in the world.

- Wesley Clark

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

- Abraham Lincoln

I have my values, and if you don't like them, well I've got some others.

- Mark Twain

And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

- John Kerry

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

- John Kerry

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

- Robert F. Kennedy

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

- Albert Einstein

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

- Walter Lippmann

By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause. Hope is what led me here today -- with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be. [January 3, 2008]

- Barack Obama

The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer...

- Moncure Conway

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the pany of immortals.

- David Ogilvy

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

- Don Quixote

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

- Albert Einstein

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

- D. H. Lawrence

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

- Henry David Thoreau

Only do what your heart tells you.

- Princess Diana

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

- Michelangelo

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

- Isaac Asimov

Our ideals resemble the stars, which illuminate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.

- Carl Schurz

Apathy can be overe by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

- Arnold Toynbee

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

- Carl Sandburg

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

- Bill Moyers

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

- Harold Nicolson

Ideals are like stars:you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.

- Carl Schurz

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and petitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

- John F. Kennedy

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

- Thomas Jefferson

What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.

- George Wilhelm Hegel

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.

- Patricia Hampl

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

- John Dewey

A man who bees conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

- Victor Frankl

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

- Victor Frankl

We have mitted the Golden Rule to memory; let us now mit it to life.

- Edwin Markham

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus

The only force that can overe an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

- Dorothy Thompson

It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.

- Norbert Capek

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery