Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Augustine, St.

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

Ann Radcliffe

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

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

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Anne Frank

10.

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

11.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

14.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

15.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

16.

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

Keats, John

17.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

18.

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

Benjamin, Walter

19.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

20.

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.

21.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

22.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

23.

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

24.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

25.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

26.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

27.

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

Anouilh, Jean

28.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

33.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

34.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

35.

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

36.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

37.

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

Scott Westerfeld

38.

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

39.

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

40.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

41.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

43.

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

44.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

45.

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

46.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

47.

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