These face quotes will inspire you.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging face quotes, face sayings, and face proverbs.
Best Face Quotes
- “When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.” ~ Cynthia Ozick
- “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” ~ Victor Hugo
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“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.” ~ Judy Blume
- “Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” ~ Gail Buckley
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“The eyes those silent tongues of love.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.” ~ Lauren Bacall
- “What is a face, really? Its own photo? It’s make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn’t everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.” ~ Pablo Picasso
- “Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.” ~ Natalie Clifford Barney
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“If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
- “The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.” ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
- “In the faces of men and women, I see God.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” ~ Helen Keller
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“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.” ~ Albert Camus
- “I never forget a face, but in your case, I’ll be glad to make an exception.” ~ Groucho Marx
- “He had a face like a blessing.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.” ~ Charles Lamb
- “With faces like dead lovers who died true.” ~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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“A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.” ~ Thomas Browne
- “I have eyes like those of a dead pig.” ~ Marlon Brando
- “To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.” ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
- “Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.” ~ Helen Hunt Jackson
- “I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.” ~ Thomas Hardy
- “Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.” ~ Audrey Hepburn.
- “F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“The worst of faces still is human.” ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
- “People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.” ~ Bertolt Brecht
- “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” ~ W. Clement Stone
- “There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.” ~ Thomas Browne
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“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?” ~ Christopher Marlowe
- “A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!” ~ Henry Fielding
- “For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened – then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.” ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- “Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Features, the great soul’s apparent seat.” ~ William C. Bryant
- “Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.” ~ Diane Ackerman
- “You have your face bare; I am all face.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “A man’s face, as a rule, says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.” ~ Walter Scott
- “We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.” ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- “The human face is the organic seat of beauty…. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.” ~ Eliza Farnham , Beautiful face quotes
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“Her face was her chaperone.” ~ Rupert Hughes
- “I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face.” ~ Johnny Depp
- “My daddy’s face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw, he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie.” ~ Toni Morrison
- “Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman’s face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.” ~ Helen Hunt
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“My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.” ~ W. H. Auden
- “The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen” ~ Milan Kundera
- “I never forget a face, but in your case, I’ll make an exception.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast.” ~ Julie Burchill
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“There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.” ~ Charles Horton Cooley
- “Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.” ~ Carolyn Kizer
- “When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.” ~ Robert Burns
