Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

- Delaney, Bessie

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Ruskin, John

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

Klee, Paul

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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

Bejar, Hada

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.

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

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

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

Berry, Halle

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.

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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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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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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo, Edward A.

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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 for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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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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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Prager, Emily

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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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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Proverb, Persian

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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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 beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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

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The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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