Physical Appearance Quotes

• The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Religious, Knowledge, Ego

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2004.

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  Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

  Sophia Loren

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations". Book by Jonathon Green (p. 340), 1982.

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• People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.

  Jonathan Adler

  Hygiene, People, Dresses

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• I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.

  Drew Barrymore

  Thinking, Impact, Appearance

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• Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• It is better to look good than to feel good.

  Billy Crystal

  Feel Good, Comedian, Looks

  Song: You Look Marvelous

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• God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Beauty, God, Directors

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• Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

  Christopher Lasch

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

  Halle Berry

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Personality

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• When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

  John Lydon

  Funny, Attitude, Talking

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• Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Lee Van Cleef

  Funny, Eye, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Character, Hair, Color

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• Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Judging People, Long

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• A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

  Helen Reddy

  Feminist, Firsts, Appearance

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• I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

  Pam Grier

  Appearance, Grew Up, Emphasis

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• I care very much about all of my characters, recurring or not. I try to imagine something about that person beyond his or her physical appearance. After creating them, part of my job is to inhabit them and try to see their world from their perspective.

  Jason Lutes

  Character, Perspective, Trying

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• I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

  Penelope Lively

  Beautiful, Way, Appearance

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• Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.

  Marcel Proust

  Simple, Play, Intellectual

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• The world would have you believe that you are of worth only if you have money, a certain physical appearance, stylish clothes, or social position. The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions. ... Part of what it means to be a Latter-day Saint is to know within your soul your eternal worth, who you really are, and why you are here on earth.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Self Esteem, Believe, Mean

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• Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.

  Samuel Pepys

  Fighting, Men, Mind

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• Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

  Thomas S. Monson

  People, Weakness, Charity

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• It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

  Andrew Cohen

  Crazy, Men, Literature

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• She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Girl, Meaningful, Running

  Vivian Vande Velde (2002). “Heir Apparent”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Lying, Problem

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