Quotes About My Ideal Man

#1. Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

Alexander McQueen

#2. My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin - the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man ... Where are the life-size - or even pint-size - Benjamin Franklins of today?

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#3. My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.

Nicki Minaj

#4. We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.

Tom Brokaw

#6. In the ideal state a leader ensures that each man is effective in just the right capacity.

Timur Vermes

#7. Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.

Khem Veasna

#8. As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Derek Jarman

#10. I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

George Edward Woodberry

#11. Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

Nikola Tesla

#12. The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

John Ruskin

#13. A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

Victor Hugo

#15. If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?

Plato

#16. He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#17. The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
- Aristotle

Aristotle.

#18. Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates

#20. Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

Karl G. Maeser

#21. Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are functions of the self.

Ayn Rand

#22. If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

Wilkie Collins

#23. Oh, when I think that I made of a man like you my ideal! the ideal of my life!
There was your mistake. There was your error. The error all women commit. Why can't you women love us, faults and all?

Oscar Wilde

#24. It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.

Ernst Junger

#25. My definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

Clare Boothe Luce

#26. The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants worst enemies.

Claire Wolfe

#27. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates

#28. We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.

Camille Paglia

#30. He who cannot find the way to HIS ideal, lives more frivolously and shamelessly than the man without an ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. He who is infatuated with 'Man' leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Max Stirner

#32. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

Paulo Freire

#33. I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.

Baba Amte

#34. Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how intellectual one may become, what matters is that one remains a man.

Thomas Mann

#35. Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.

Herman Melville

#36. The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

John Sterling

#37. Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

Thomas Carlyle

#38. Let's stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His convictions? The honesty of his feeling? The independence of his thought?

Ayn Rand

#39. The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Aristotle.

#40. In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

Herbert Spencer

#41. The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.

Wyndham Lewis

#42. Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Gustave Flaubert

#43. This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

Ossian Everett Mills

#44. Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#45. Man may see a great deal of difference between grass and a little tree, but if you mount very high, the grass and the biggest tree will appear much the same. So, from the standpoint of the highest ideal, the lowest animal and the highest man are the same. If

Swami Vivekananda

#46. Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

Theodore Parker

#47. Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

Eric Hoffer

#48. The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

Swami Vivekananda