Ideal Man Quotes

• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  Aristotle

  Life, Gratitude, Courage

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

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

  Alexander McQueen

  Real, Men, Ideals

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• There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.

  Francoise Sagan

  Men, Dating, He Man

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• The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Mean, Men

  Oscar Wilde (1988). “The complete plays”, Methuen Drama

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• The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

  Aristotle

  Men, Joy, Favors

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• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

  Margaret Fuller

  Soul, Failing, Know How

  Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  Aristotle

  Single, Men, Silence

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• 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

  Hero, Men, History

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• During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Apr 20, 2014

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• I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• 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

  Men, Definitions, Particular

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• As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Girl, Real

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Law, Effort

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.242, UPNE

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• The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

  Britt Ekland

  Husband, Men, Easier

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He could speak with any person, even the soldiers, and if there was violence in their heart he could change it. He would not have to fight, do you see? Maybe he would not be very handsome, but he would be beautiful when he spoke. He would be very kind, even if you burned his food because you were laughing and talking with your girlfriends instead of watching the cooking. He would just say, 'Ah, never mind'.

  Chris Cleave

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Heart

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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

  Nicki Minaj

  Men, White, Paper

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

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Self, Perfection

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• 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

  Men, Discovery, Ideas

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

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• Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.

  Phyllis Chesler

  People, Mental Health, Persons

  Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”

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• I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Lying, Believe

  Interview with Vince Aletti for Aperture Magazine, Summer 1999.

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• Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

  Jose Marti

  Beautiful, Men, Greek

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

  Janet Echelman

  Ideas, Limits, Compromise

  "Imagination Becomes Reality" by Janet Echelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

  Nelson Mandela

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Equality

  Statement at trial, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 Apr. 1964

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• To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

  Jean Rostand

  Men, Thinking, Certain

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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