Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

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

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

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

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

Banks, Tyra

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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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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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French

38.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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

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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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

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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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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck