Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

- Nibley, Hugh

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Ruskin, John

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Andre, Father

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Banks, Tyra

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Anne Frank

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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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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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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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

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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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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Kotomichi

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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

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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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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.