Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Brown, Helen Gurley

Best Quotes about Beauty

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Pascal, Blaise

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

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

10.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Paglia, Camille

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Howard, Vernon

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

O'Hara, Frank

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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Berry, Halle

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

Keats, John

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

Anne Frank

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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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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 absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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

Bejar, Hada

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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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

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To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare, William

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 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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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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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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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.