Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

- Reade, Charles

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Sappho

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Andre, Father

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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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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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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Nathan, Robert

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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

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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 always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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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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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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

Anne Frank

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

Augustine, St.

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

Prager, Emily

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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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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 power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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 is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Aristotle

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De