Uplifting Goals Quotes

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.