Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

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

Proverb, Persian

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Spenser, Edmund

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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 rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Margaret Cho

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

Keats, John

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

Anne Frank

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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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

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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

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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

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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.

Shakespeare, William

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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

Scott Westerfeld

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What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher