Idealist Quotes

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

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George Carlin

Person, Inside, Cynical

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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg

I'm an idealist without illusions.
John F. Kennedy

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford

Person, Prosperous, Helps

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken

Roses, Smell, Soup

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris

Long, Done, Short

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer

Leader, Talk, Language

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick

Idiot, Pity, Village

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow Wilson

America, Sometimes, American

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.
Hugh Jackman

Education, Learning, Father

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
Madeleine Albright

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
Madeleine Albright

Business, Laugh, Made

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Irving Babbitt

Faith, Leadership, Light

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
Roger Moore

Realist, Mixture

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
Studs Terkel

Good, Hope, Human

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
Sargent Shriver

Change, Peace, Realize

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.
Todd Gitlin

Work, Try, Possible

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
Brit Marling

Romantic, Bit, Naive

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Malcolm De Chazal

Heels, Tiptoe, Walks

I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.
Elisabeth Rohm

Age, Hope, Justice

Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton

Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
Saad Hariri

Good, Bad, Father

I'm an idealist.
Bobby Cannavale

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