Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Beauty

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

10.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

11.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

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What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Arnim, Mary

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

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My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr

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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop