Quotes About Beauty Ideals

#1. In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Marianne Moore

#2. Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

#3. Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

William Dean Howells

#4. Create peace in your heart before you can express it in words.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

Stella Young

#6. I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

Jesse Stuart

#7. Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

Gary Hamel

#8. Enemies, like friends, told you who you were.

David Malouf

#9. Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Albert Einstein

#11. Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.

Susan Jane Gilman

#12. One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Susan Neiman

#13. Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

Sathya Sai Baba

#14. Freedman and Barnouin reveal the truth in Skinny Bitch, but they encase the truth in lies
women must be skinny to be attractive and being attractive should be a priority
via the typical verbiage of female disempowerment.

Kim Socha

#15. The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

Gordon Gee

#16. We rarely see the things we don't expect to see.

Susanna Kearsley

#17. Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

Jerry Weintraub

#18. One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

Libba Bray

#19. The most adventurous I've been was doing Raleigh International when I was 20.

Rupert Evans

#20. The people of each country get more like the people of every other country. They have no character, no beauty, no ideals, no culture-nothing, nothing." ...
"Everything's getting gray, and it'll be grayer.

Paul Bowles

#21. If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?

Al Jourgensen

#22. Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Naomi Wolf

#23. I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

Elizabeth Ray

#24. The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Albert Einstein

#25. ...so individuals have their flesh cut and pulled, surgery companies proclaim it as an empowering choice, and the stifling cultural ideals about women's appearance are left unscathed

Kat Banyard

#26. In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

Fischer Black

#27. It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

Virginia Petrucci

#28. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth,
Goodness, and Beauty.

Albert Einstein