Ideal Self Quotes

Just so we're clear, Mark Watney is who I want to be. He has all the qualities I like about myself magnified without any of the qualities I dislike. Mark Watney isn't afraid to fly.

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men, that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character... Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

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.

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

I'll have long, straight hair, like down to my back, when I go to Heaven. And I'm not even going to work out, but I'll be in shape. It's a whole new program up there.

I truly am the reflection of perfection.

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Picture what others wish to be, not what they may be now

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.