Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

- Bernstein, Al

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Persian

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

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

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

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 truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

11.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

17.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

18.

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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

20.

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

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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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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Ray, John

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

Proverb, French

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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 is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

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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 words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Augustine, St.

38.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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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 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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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

O'Hara, Frank

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.