Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

- Nibley, Hugh

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

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

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

Immermann

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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Aristotle

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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

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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 no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Eliot, George

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Margaret Cho

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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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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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Philips, Ambrose

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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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?

Kerr, Jean

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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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 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.

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

Proverb, French

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Sappho

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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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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