Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Marlowe, Christopher

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

Banks, Tyra

12.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

14.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

Proverb, French

17.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Proverb, Persian

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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

25.

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

Picasso, Pablo

27.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

28.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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 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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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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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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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

38.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Teale, Edwin Way

40.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

42.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

43.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

44.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

45.

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

46.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.