Quotes About Outward Appearances

#1. Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.

Sharon Bolton

#2. We'll erase those who want to use us for our family prestige ...
... and erase those girls who try to apply their patronizing psychology theories on us ...
... and those stupid adults who only judge us by our outward appearances ...
We'll erase them all from our consciousness.

Bisco Hatori

#3. Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.

John Ortberg

#4. Life's tempering and altering process often takes the form of adversity, and, as far as outward appearances are concerned, seems to be working against us when it is actually working for us.

Chris Prentiss

#5. Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances.

Harold B. Lee

#6. I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Confucius

#7. true beauty has nothing to do with outward appearances. The more we focus on what we look like on the outside, the more insecure we become. The world has an impossibly narrow definition of beauty, and by those standards, we'll never be thin enough, pretty enough, or good enough.

Kylie Bisutti

#8. It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.
A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.

Donna Tartt

#9. Outward appearances are deceptive. What's within them, beneath them, is what matters.

Ryan Holiday

#10. Outward appearances mean everything.

Simone Elkeles

#11. Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith ... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.

Martin Luther

#12. You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

Hosea Ballou

#13. True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart.

Farshad Asl

#14. By outward appearances, Cantabrigia Five was a video journalist. But it made sense that, in a world where no police or military action could be judged successful unless it looked good to ordinary persons watching it on video screens, she was also a general.

Neal Stephenson

#15. Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

Howard Carter

#16. There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

Amber Benson

#17. A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

Thomas A Kempis

#18. To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.

Hermione Gingold

#19. Alfred T. Slipper was a janitor. Most of the time (often, in fact) they treated him with disdain. They had no idea of the astonishing acts of heroism, the blinding light, contained within his outward humdrum disguise.
Only Alfred's parakeet, Dolores, knew who he was and what he could do.

Kate DiCamillo

#20. Yesterday is history, but if you don't learn from your past mistakes you will continue to make the same mistakes. Tomorrow isn't a mystery. Go after your goals with every breathe you take, and the future is far from being a mystery. Today isn't a gift. You have to earn it every day.

Steve Kaufman

#21. Sometimes things are stronger than you give them credit for.

Kay Cassidy

#22. In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.

Michael M. Honda

#23. By definition, you can't experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics, consciousness is conserved.
I am the one who wakes up in the morning.
Always.
Every morning.
I don't die.
I just become increasingly unlikely.

Robert Charles Wilson

#24. Clinging to one's outward appearance interferes with living.

Kobo Abe

#25. Everybody, professors and students and Proctors the same, knew that if the sign said 'do not walk on the grass', one hopped. Anybody who didn't had failed to understand what Oxford was.

Natasha Pulley

#26. Who would you impress if the world was blind?

Shannon L. Alder

#27. The world more often rewards outward signs of merit than merit itself.

La Rochefoucaul

#28. I love being a woman. You can cry. You get to wear pants now. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. You get to wear cute clothes. It must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it.

Gilda Radner

#29. Someone said, "Backsliding is not a blowout. It's a slow leak.

Don Sisk