Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Beauty

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French

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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

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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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

Aristotle

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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

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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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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Spenser, Edmund

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

35.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

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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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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