Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is not caused. It is.

- Dickinson, Emily

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.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

Sontag, Susan

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

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

12.

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

Morley, Christopher

14.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

15.

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

Berry, Halle

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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

Bejar, Hada

20.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

21.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

25.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

26.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

28.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

29.

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

O'Hara, Frank

30.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

31.

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

Anne Frank

32.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

33.

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 itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

37.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

38.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

44.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

45.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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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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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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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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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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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)