“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker
“Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault.”
As quoted by Rolf Edberg, Swedish Ambassador to Norway, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Hammarskjöld in Oslo, Norway (10 December 1961) http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1961/hammarskjold-acceptance.html
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C. Wright Mills (1916–1962) American sociologist
"Liberal Values in the Modern World," in Power , Politics and People (1963), p. 189.
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Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
Context: Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.
Louis Lecoin (1888–1971) French militant anarcho-pacifist
As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) edited by Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels-Cyrus
“Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.”
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 54
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, Remarks to the People of Estonia (September 2014)
“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals.”
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) French writer
The Age for Love
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"Aging Rebel: Vladimir Zhirinovsky Is Enjoying Another Moment" in The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/09/02/aging-rebel-vladimir-zhirinovsky-is-enjoying-another-moment-a55177 (2 September 2016)
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
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