Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

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.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Berry, Halle

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

10.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

11.

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 and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

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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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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

28.

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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Sappho

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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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