Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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.

Best Quotes about Beauty

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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

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

Immermann

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Proverb, French

10.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

11.

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

Augustine, St.

12.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

14.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

15.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

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My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

17.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

18.

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

Berry, Halle

20.

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.

21.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

22.

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

24.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

25.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

26.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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

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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

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

33.

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

34.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 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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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

43.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

44.

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

45.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

46.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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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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

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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?

Jean Kerr

50.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho