Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

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

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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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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sappho

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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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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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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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

22.

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

Margaret Cho

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

25.

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

Aristotle

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

Prager, Emily

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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 for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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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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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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

39.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Immermann

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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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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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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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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 rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Ann Radcliffe

49.

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 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