Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Scott Westerfeld

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Benjamin, Walter

10.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

11.

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

12.

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

Banks, Tyra

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Margaret Cho

16.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

17.

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

18.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

19.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Augustine, St.

21.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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.

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Persian

25.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

26.

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

27.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

28.

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

29.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

30.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

31.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

32.

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

Anne Frank

33.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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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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

36.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

37.

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

38.

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

39.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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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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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The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

43.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

44.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

45.

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

Hubbard, Kin

46.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

47.

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

Proverb, French

48.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

49.

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

50.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata