Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

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

10.

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

12.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

13.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

14.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

15.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

16.

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

Scott Westerfeld

17.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

18.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

20.

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

21.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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

23.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

24.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

25.

People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

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

Andre, Father

27.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

28.

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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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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

35.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

Morley, Christopher

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

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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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

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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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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

50.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De