Motivational Quotes

Beauty

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Beauty

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Pascal, Blaise

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

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.

10.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

14.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Andre, Father

16.

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

Sontag, Susan

17.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

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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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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anne Frank

21.

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

27.

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

Benjamin, Walter

28.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

29.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

30.

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

31.

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Aristotle

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

O'Hara, Frank

37.

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

Berry, Halle

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

40.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Prager, Emily

44.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

45.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

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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

47.

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

Ann Radcliffe

48.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

49.

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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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