Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

O'Hara, Frank

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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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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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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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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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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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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

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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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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

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

Anne Frank

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Andre, Father

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

Aristotle

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Nathan, Robert

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles