These real beauty quotes will inspire you. Real beauty comes from does not come from the outside world. It comes from within, and that is why we need to stop looking for external validation. True beauty comes from inside us, and the inside out. It’s not about the outside world, but rather how you feel inside.
It’s about your inner self, and how you feel when you’re with yourself. When you are happy, your mind will be more receptive to new experiences.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging real beauty quotes, real beauty sayings, and real beauty proverbs.
Best Real Beauty Quotes
- “Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.” ~ Christian Dior
- “Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.” ~ Markus Zusak
- “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” ~ Confucius
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“Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good.” ~ Laetitia Casta
- “You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.” ~ Anouk Aimee
- “Real beauty knocks you a little bit off-kilter.” ~ David Byrne
- “A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.” ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
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“The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one’s own.” ~ Katherine Anne Porter
- “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt , Real beauty quotes of woman
- “The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one’s own even more, one’s own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.” ~ Katherine Anne Porter
- “…walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
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“We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.” ~ Ernesto Cardenal
- “Pause and remember – You are unique. You are special. Every mistake, trial, and hardship has helped to sculpt your real beauty. Stop hating yourself and start appreciating and loving yourself!” ~ Jennifer Young
- “Don’t you know that there’s another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts …… stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well as all bubbles do. Come to my gallery and I will sell you beautiful things at a more reasonable price. But the point is that they will have value. Things of real beauty things of the spirit.” ~ Edward Rutherfurd
- “If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you’d save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
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“The real beauty – inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.” ~ Christina Aguilera
- “But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church, they don’t think.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Not exactly. I see a girl who wants to present someone special to the world. Someone beautiful. The pinnacle of beauty. But she has lost her hold on reality. Real beauty isn’t thin. It isn’t size two unless you happen to be four foot ten. What the world sees when they look at you is someone who believes self-worth is all about how she looks, and that very often means that what she’s missing is love. Not someone else’s love. But love and respect for herself.” ~ Ellen Hopkins
- “Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else.” ~ Philip DeFranco
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“There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.” ~ Jessica Hagedorn
- “That’s the real beauty of chanting – you directly connect with God. I have no doubt that by saying Krishna over and over again, He can come and dance on the tongue. The main thing, though, is to keep in touch with God.” ~ George Harrison
- “… there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.” ~ Julia McNair Wright
- “In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don’t accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.” ~ Evangeline Lilly
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“The real beauty of the time we’re living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.” ~ Charlotte Cotton
- “Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein “real” beauty is said to reside.” ~ Dave Hickey
- “The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.” ~ Nancy Etcoff
- “Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angels whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of ethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?” ~ Walter J. Phillips
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“I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.” ~ Marisa Berenson
- “There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they’re not getting the roles they should.” ~ William H. Macy
- “… beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal, has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.” ~ Ellen Glasgow
- “The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.” ~ Nancy Etcoff
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“I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we’re telling, how do we want to tell it?” ~ Karen Allen
- “There’s real beauty in pushing yourself to expose the real you in more ways.” ~ Kevin Systrom
- “Most women in leading roles are very boyish-looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense – the only real 12-cylinder engine – is Catherine Zeta-Jones.” ~ Alec Baldwin
- “We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savor the real beauties.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“Even though Prince wasn’t rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.” ~ Tyga
- “Goldie Hawn has always been a beauty and fashion icon to me. She radiates joy and infuses beauty into everything through her smile and spirit. She is a great example of what real beauty means to me.” ~ Erin Heatherton
- “real beauty is never vain.” ~ Ellen Buckingham Mathews
- “The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.” ~ Morrie Brickman
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“The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.” ~ Peter Morgan
- “I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I’m coming to believe it’s in the in-between spaces that our lives change and that the real beauty lies there.” ~ Shauna Niequist
- “Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.” ~ Kim Stanley Robinson
- “The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature, but it only perfectly completes it!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan , Real beauty quotes of nature
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“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it’s a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here I haven’t a clue.” ~ Jimmy Buffett
- “Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.” ~ Jean Anouilh
- “The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else, it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.” ~ Vince Gill
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“Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic pursuit of gratification, the real beauty of life comes out. When you seek to know the reality without illusion, complete with all its pain and danger, that is when real freedom and security are yours.” ~ Henepola Gunaratana
- “Real beauty is my aim.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful from within, and that is real beauty. Once it is there, your physical form won’t matter much. Your eyes will start shining with joy; your face will have a gleam, a glory. The form will become immaterial. When something starts flowing from within you, some grace, then the outer form is just put aside.” ~ Rajneesh
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“She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.” ~ Truman Capote
- “What is it about fire that’s so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?…The thing man wanted to invent but never did…If you let it go on, it’d burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don’t really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.” ~ Ray Bradbury
- “real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.” ~ Barry Lopez
- “Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?” “It was beautiful,” the gunslinger said. “There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that’s only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.” ~ Stephen King
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“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.” ~ Rashida Jones
- “The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys.” ~ Murasaki Shikibu
- “The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance if we could see things as they really are. Then we should kiss both hands to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls into life with a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush the hem of the real beauty and joy and wonder that are always there.” ~ Margaret Prescott Montague
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“The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others’ lives.” ~ Anuj
- “Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.” ~ Eugene Delacroix
- “For external beauty, you put on things; for real beauty, you have to drop all things. For external beauty you have to have make-up; for real beauty, you only have to realize that you are already made up.” ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- “Style is about confidence. That’s the real beauty.” ~ Diane von Furstenberg
- “Real beauty is when you’re centered when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.” ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
