Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. — Coco Chanel
Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran
Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality. — Bobbi Brown
There is a role and function for beauty in our time. — Tadao Ando
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life. — Imelda Marcos
Beauty Pageant Image Quotes
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Beauty Contest Quotes
This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants. — Hadley Freeman
Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you. — Karl Lagerfeld
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. — Rose Schneiderman
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. — Dustin Hoffman
A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest. — Barbara Corcoran
I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania. — Sharon Stone
Be brave enough to hold on to the hope that life will be beautiful again.
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin
Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards. — Phyllis Diller
Playing guitar is not a beauty contest. — Ernie Isley
It's such an honor to be representing the USA in an international beauty contest in spite of all the tragedy that's happened in this country lately. I really hope that this this will raise everybody's spirits a little. — Olivia Culpo
Beauty Queen Quotes
Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair! — J. R. R. Tolkien
You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. — Carly Fiorina
I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure. — Rima Fakih
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.
Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen. — Rick Riordan
You may wear your virtues as a crown,
As you walk through life serenely,
And grace your simple rustic gown
With a beauty more than queenly.
Though only one for you shall care,
One only speak your praises;
And you never wear in your shining hair,
A richer flower than daisies. — Phoebe Cary
I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. — Henri Matisse
A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.
I got my red dress on tonight
Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight
Done my hair up real big beauty queen style
High heels off, I'm feeling alive — Lana Del Rey
It is only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him, and is willing to serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him. She becomes a priceless jewel, the glory of femininity, his queen! — Marabel Morgan
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. — Janis Ian
Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it. — Lily Collins
Pageant Quotes
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. — Donna Rice Hughes
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. — Wallace Stevens
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner. — Jude Law
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing.
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected. — Bob Barker
…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky — John Dryden
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers.
No Life can pompless pass away -
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here - — Emily Dickinson
Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side. — Maria Menounos
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph." — Ambrose Bierce
But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness. — Virginia Woolf
We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards? — Jay Leno
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote. — Susan Faludi
Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism. — Cintra Wilson
In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age. — Rodney Crowell
I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life. — Gabriela Isler
Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant. — Dana Gould
My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues. — Pam Grier
When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress. — Pam Grier
Trump is probably disrespected women all of his life. His alignment with women has been with his beauty pageants. And those women said he walked into the rooms where they were changing clothes and he thought that was fine and he had a right to do it. I think that's reflected in his leadership and public policy. — Maxine Waters
Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world. — Joyce Giraud
The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace. — Jay Leno
Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen. — Dana Gould
The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants. — Marc Marcel
In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism. — Cintra Wilson
Being in a pageant is not just about beauty. It's more about service to the community and being a role model and making a difference. It's being proud of your city. It's all what you put into it... — Chantel Giamanco
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here. — Clay Aiken
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. — Donna Rice
I consider myself to be blessed. I have a family that is a mix of different religions and different ethnicities. I hope everyone can look beyond the bikini or beyond the whole beauty pageant stereotype of Miss USA, and realize that what I'm doing is more significant than just that. It represents the United States as a country of opportunity, where you can do anything you want to, and ethnicity and religion cannot stop you. — Rima Fakih
I hope to see women thriving and happy, loving what they're doing, and being in control and powerful of what they create. I guess what I would say is, as much as we all love the fashion and the makeup and the glamour, this isn't a beauty pageant. It's about the heart and the drive and the work. Of course, it's lovely to dress up and compliment one another and feel good - but that shouldn't be the very first thing. — Lady Gaga
They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't we just put all the contestants on 'Jeopardy!' and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one. — Jay Leno
When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup. — Halle Berry
I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world. — Joyce Giraud
True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two years at finishing school or being groomed as a beauty pageant queen. It is the natural byproduct of a young woman who has emptied herself, given up her own life, and allowed God's Spirit complete access to every dimension of her inner and outer life. — Leslie Ludy
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
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. On her beauty pageant days — Halle Berry
I think the beauty industry is a stepping stone in terms of pageants that will give you a launching pad to be seen. For people to understand who you are and what you stand for... I think it teaches self esteem and self worth. And it also encourages you to have a more philanthropic viewpoint of the world. — Kenya Moore
with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune. — Inez Haynes Irwin
The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave. — Roger Scruton
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