100 Inspirational Quotes Celebrating the True Essence of Beauty

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

- Khalil Gibran

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

- H. G. Wells

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

- Coco Chanel

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."

- Dante Alighieri

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Beauty is whatever gives joy."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

- Edmund Burke

"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

- Confucius

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."

- John Keats

"Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self."

- Priscilla Presley

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

- Anne Frank

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

- Emily Dickinson

"Integrity reveals beauty."

- Thomas Leonard

"There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me."

- Liv Tyler

"Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good."

- Laetitia Casta

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."

- Maria Mitchell

"Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates."

- Kate Angell

"True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul."

- Audrey Hepburn

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

- Maya Angelou

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

"She was beautiful, not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful for the way she thought."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies."

- Lord Byron

"Beauty does not reserve itself for special elite moments or instances; it does not wait for perfection but is present already secretly in everything."

- John O’Donohue

"Beauty is the harvest of presence."

- David Whyte

"Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by the grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention."

- Katherine May

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

- Henry Miller

"The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it… put yourself in the way of beauty."

- Cheryl Strayed

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

- Aristotle

"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it."

- Voltaire

"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."

- Albert Camus

"if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorns have roses."

- Alphonse Karr

"The little things? The little moments? They aren't little."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Some people could be given an entire field of roses and only see the thorns in it. Others could be given a single weed and only see the wildflower in it. Perception is a key component to gratitude. And gratitude a key component to joy."

- Amy Weatherly

"It’s okay to feel like you don't look like the next person. But what you have to know is that you are beautiful and you are strong and you are worth it. It's important to know that."

- Jordin Sparks

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder."

- Salma Hayek

"Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you're most beautiful."

- Zoë Kravitz

"A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too. I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness."

- Miranda Kerr

"It is inner beauty which matters most."

- Dr. Anil Kumar Sinha

"You are beautiful. You are strong. You are worth it. You are loved."

- Macaile Hutt

"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."

- Joseph Addison

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."

- John Keats

"Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow, or a communicated sense of fineness."

- D. H. Lawrence

"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

"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world."

- Max Ehrmann

"Even if you find yourself knee-deep in mud, on this breath, it’s worth saying there is beauty in this corner of the field."

- Sarah Blondin

"If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate … joy is not made to be a crumb"

- Mary Oliver

"Joy isn’t hard to find at all. In fact, it’s all around us"

- Ingrid Fetell Lee

"There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them."

- Henri Matisse

"Don’t hunt for diamonds. Get fascinated by pebbles. The world is already more interesting than anyone can possibly imagine. You just need to pay attention."

- Russell Davies

"Females are the most beautiful, gorgeous creatures in the whole world. And I think that we are gorgeous no matter what size we are."

- Alicia Keys

"At some point, the girl who never thinks she is pretty, will believe she is. And she is beautiful."

- Emily R. McCormick

"You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don’t let the storm make you forget it."

- Russell T Davies

"You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are."

- Melissa Etheridge

"Forgive yourself for believing that you’re anything less than beautiful."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"You are beautiful because that’s the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it."

- Shay Mitchell

"Just exactly as you are, this minute, right now, without changing a thing…you are beautiful. Beautiful enough to take God’s breath away…"

- Neale Donald Walsch

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."

- Charles Lamb

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."

- Ashley Smith

"There is a kind of beauty in imperfection."

- Conrad Hall

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

- David Hume

"There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it."

- H. R. Giger

"Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic."

- Rosalind Russell

"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."

- Christian Dior

"To love beauty is to see light."

- Victor Hugo

"Things are beautiful if you love them."

- Jean Anouilh

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

- Saint Augustine

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."

- John Ray

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

- Francis Bacon

"A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."

- Anne Roiphe

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime."

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads."

- Anatole France

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

- Christopher Morley

"A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink."

- Gina Carey

"If you’re not watchful, the wonderful is made mundane. But on a good day the mundane can be made miraculous."

- Ella Frances Sanders

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our sense to grow sharper."

- W.B. Yeats, Bertrand Russell and Eden Philpotts

"When we are consumed - partially or wholly - by the dark, it may be that we need to squint or use a magnifying lens to see the small pins of light, but they are there."

- Ella Frances Sanders

"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away."

- Laurence J. Peter

"If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty which is, who cares?"

- Tina Fey

"You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.’"

- Erin McKean

"Beauty without expression is boring."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."

- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Beauty pleases the eyes only; sweetness of disposition charms the soul."

- Voltaire

"Love is a great beautifier."

- Louisa May Alcott

"There is no beauty without some strangeness."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The perception of beauty is a moral test."

- Henry David Thoreau

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."

- George Meredith

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum."

- Alexis Carrel

"I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."

- Anouk Aimee

"Beauty is a fragile gift."

- Ovid

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

- Aldous Huxley

"Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments."

- Munshi Premchand

"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."

- Oscar Wilde

"I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?"

- Jean Kerr

"Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power, or good looks."

- Carol Botwin

"the more you study delight, the more delight there is to study"

- Ross Gay

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

- Hosea Ballou

"be joyful though you have considered all the facts."

- Wendell Berry

"The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased"

- Mark Nepo

"The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Rare is the union of beauty and purity."

- Juvenal

"When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist."

- Akhenaton

"A women's greatest asset is her beauty."

- Alex Comfort

"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"

- Homer

"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"

- William Butler Yeats

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

- Socrates

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

- Leo Tolstoy

"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."

- Edmund Burke

"Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare/And beauty draws us with a single hair."

- Alexander Pope

"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things."

- Albrecht Durer

"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."

- Lao Tzu

"You're beautiful, like a May fly."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."

- Oscar Wilde

"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."

- Groucho Marx

"True beauty can’t be seen in the mirror, it’s reflected in your soul."

"Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out."

"Beauty comes from within, and shines without."

"Inner peace reflects outward beauty."

"The world is more beautiful with you in it."

"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day."

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"Your beauty is not just on the outside; it radiates from within."

"Believe in your own beauty and the world will too."

"Your imperfections make you uniquely beautiful."

"Your beauty is in your laugh, your kindness, and your spirit."

"Confidence breeds beauty."

"Her love for others makes her even more beautiful."

"Her inner beauty captivates and enchants."

"You don’t have to be perfect to be beautiful."

"Everyone has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

"Your beauty is defined by you and only you."

"You are beautiful when your soul is shining."

"Be your own kind of beautiful."

- Unknown

"Beauty is not just a state of body, it's a state of mind."

"Let your unique beauty shine bright."

"You are a beautiful reflection of love."

"Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through."

"A beautiful heart is more valuable than a beautiful face."

"Be your own beautiful masterpiece."

"Beauty is the illumination of your soul."

"Beauty isn't about being perfect; it’s about being real."

"Your presence adds beauty to the world."

"Natural beauty radiates from genuine happiness."

"Real beauty is being happy with yourself."

"A kind heart is a fountain of beauty."

"True beauty never asks for attention."

"Your heart’s beauty is timeless."

"The beauty of your mind reflects the beauty of your soul."

"You are beautiful because you know your worth."

"Embrace your reflection; it tells your story."

"May your soul be as beautiful as your smile."

"There is nothing more beautiful than embracing the real you."

"Your beauty is your signature."

"A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset."

"You are beautifully and wonderfully made."

"Your beauty leaves a trail of inspiration."

"Beauty lies in how we face life's challenges."

"Your unique essence is your most beautiful gift."

"Let your heart be the most beautiful thing about you."

"The beauty you see in others is a reflection of yourself."

"Your story is beautiful, and it's only just begun."

"Genuine beauty can never be diminished."

"You are beyond beautiful; you are extraordinary."

"Your resilience is your beauty."

"Every soul is beautiful and precious."

"Be unabashedly beautiful in your truth."

"Your passion is your beauty."

"Her soul is like a diamond, beautiful and unbreakable."

"You are a rare gem, a single soul in a world of billions."

"Her smile is the most captivating beauty."

"She is the embodiment of grace, charm, and beauty."

"Her laughter is an orchestra of beauty in its purest form."

"You are a wonder to behold."

"You are a chapter of beauty in humanity’s storybook."

"Celebrate every shade of beauty."

"True beauty is eternal."

"Every step you take adds beauty to the world."

"There is beauty in simplicity."

"You are the art in life’s masterpiece."

"Do not change yourself to please others. You are beautiful just as you are."

"Your life is a beautiful creation."

"Leave a little sparkle wherever you go."

"The exquisite beauty of life is in its unpredictability."

"Beauty is the shadow of harmony."

"The moon and stars envy your beauty."

"Being yourself is the most beautiful thing you can be."

"You are beautiful, just the way you are."