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

Henry Ford

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Irving Layton

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

Carl Sandburg

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.

Hugh Macleod

Depending on whether you're an idealist or not, if you're working for the ideal bill that satisfies all your needs, it's never going to pass.

Mike Simpson

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

H. L. Mencken

I'm a jaded idealist. It's a paradox, but that's what ministry is all about, ... I wouldn't say these things about Ironwood if I didn't believe it.

Ann Summers

It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.

Jennifer Frederick