Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Margaret Cho

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

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

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

Kotomichi

11.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

O'Hara, Frank

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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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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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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Immermann

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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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

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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