Sonia Rykiel Quotes

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

Some people say I'm not a very pretty woman, but I'm a very beautiful woman inside.

I think it's what's inside that makes you beautiful on the outside.

When you are fit and beautiful you are appreciated, you become more confident.

I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.

I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women - boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

As long as you feel confident, you're going to look beautiful. You don't need to be a stick figure to be beautiful.

I never in a million years thought I would be the person to go to for self-esteem; that was not my intent. But I happen to love beauty, I love the way people look, and I love making women look beautiful.

It took a long while for me to know that I'm beautiful. I remember going through this phase when I was younger of wanting to pass by mirrors and not look at them. That was so ridiculous. I've learned now that beauty starts from within.