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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

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

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

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

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
Roger Moore

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

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

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

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

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

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

Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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