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Ideals

«I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.»
Author: Anne Frank (Author) | About: Ideals | Keywords: at heart, ideals, spite
«I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.»
Author: Anne Frank (Author) | About: Ideals | Keywords: ideals, upheld, uphold, upholding, upholds
«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 will reach your destiny.»
«Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.»
«Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.»
Author: Edgar Watson Howe (Editor, Essayist, Novelist) | About: Ideals, Living | Keywords: Sunday
«Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.»
«Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.»
«All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.»
Author: Hermann Hesse (Novelist, Poet) | About: Ideals | Keywords: threatened
«Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished»
«A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers»

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