Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

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

Aristotle

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Andre, Father

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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

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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 a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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)

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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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

Anne Frank

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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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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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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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

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