Outer Appearance Quotes:

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

- Jean de La Fontaine

topic: Men, Long, Judging, Judging You, Outer Appearance

Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.

- Kate Angell

topic: Inner Beauty, Outer Beauty, Outer Appearance, Outward Beauty

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?

- Edith Sitwell

source: "Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions". Book by Victoria Glendinning (p. 54), 1981; later quoted in "An Uncommon Scold" edited by Abby Adams (p. 74), November 1, 1989.

topic: Being Yourself, Successful, Secret, Pekingese, Outer Appearance

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

- Edith Sitwell

topic: Trying, Looks, Pekingese, Outer Appearance, Outward Appearance

We are far more than our bodies and personalities. The inner spirit is always beautiful and lovable, no matter how our outer appearances may change.

- Louise Hay

topic: Beautiful, Personality, Body, Outer Appearance

We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves us, however, to get on very good terms with more than just the surface of our bodies as we grow older; for if we don't listen to our bodies and pay attention to our physical needs and pleasures, this vehicle that we need to be running well to take us into a long and comfortable life, will limit what we can do and who we become.

- Jean Shinoda Bolen

topic: Running, Long, Unhappy, Outer Appearance, Comfortable Life

The ability to make judgments lies at the heart of Christian living. Unless we are able to judge doctrine, lifestyles, and entertainment, unless we are able to distinguish between outer appearance and inner character, we just might miss the purpose for which God placed us on this earth. We might end up accepting a stone for bread and a snake for a fish.

- Erwin W. Lutzer

source: Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Who Are You to Judge?: Learning to Distinguish Between Truths, Half-Truths, and Lies”, p.39, Moody Publishers

topic: Christian, Lying, Heart, Christian Living, Outer Appearance

I'm all for women who get plastic surgery, because plastic surgery allows you to make your outer appearance resemble your inner appearance — fakeWe have shows like Extreme Make-Over: “I don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.

- Daniel Tosh

topic: Cutting, Personality, Looks, Staples, Outer Appearance

By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating.

- Wendy Lustbader

topic: Lessons, Faces, Becoming, Outer Appearance, Calmer