No one ever said being an entrepreneur was easy. But it’s definitely worth it. As they say, if it was easy, everybody would do it. And while there are plenty of amazing quotes about success and entrepreneurship, sometimes we need a reminder of just how tough things can be. So here’s a compilation of some of the best ugliness quotes out there. Because let’s be honest, every once in a while we all need to hear them.

The best ugliness quotes

1. The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

2. It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature. — Napoleon Hill

3. The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature. — Napoleon Hill

5. Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, –which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self–conscious about. — Ray Bradbury

7. Ugliness without tact is horrible. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

8. The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli

9. Ugliness sees ugliness — beauty sees beauty.

10. A stick beats more ugliness into a person than it ever beats out. — Nellie Bly

11. People are reminded that it’s not all ugliness in the world. — Thomas Kinkade

12. One man’s justice is another’s injustice One man’s beauty another’s ugliness One man’s wisdom another’s folly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

14. Do not you realize you’re talking to another person’s ugliness yourself when you’re talking about someone else? — Mochamad Fathurizqon Mutiudin

15. The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness — J. Rufus Fears, Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life

16. You can see ugliness or you can see beauty in the same thing–It just indicates your state of mind ~ Ramana Pemmaraju — Ramana Pemmaraju

17. The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

18. I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. — Oscar Wilde

19. Do not you realize you’re talking to another person’s ugliness yourself when you’re talking about someone else? — Mochamad Fathurizqon Mutiudin

20. The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity. — Michelle Franklin, The Leaf Flute–A Marridon Novella

21. To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general inclines to the outer and knows nothing of the inner. — Wassily Kandinsky

22. Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self. — Yasmin Mogahed

23. People are reminded that it’s not all ugliness in the world. — Thomas Kinkade

24. One man’s justice is another’s injustice One man’s beauty another’s ugliness One man’s wisdom another’s folly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self–conscious about. — Ray Bradbury

26. The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

27. He’s most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running. — Markus Zusak

28. The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity. — Michelle Franklin, The Leaf Flute–A Marridon Novella

29. The repercussion of ugliness is endless. — Massimo Vignelli

30. Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self. — Yasmin Mogahed

31. Industry is the root of all ugliness. — Oscar Wilde

32. The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity. — Michelle Franklin, The Leaf Flute–A Marridon Novella

33. Everything that’s realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. — Sharon Tate

34. I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. — Salvador Dali

35. A soul`s ugliness can be much more ambitious than her beauty. — Michalopoulos Angelos

36. I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. — Salvador Dali

37. I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness. — Renee Vivien

38. It’s as if inside the White House the belief in Obama’s inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it’s a startling revelation. — Tina Brown

39. It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. — Thornton Wilder

40. Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self–conscious about. — Ray Bradbury

41. Angry is ugly — anger is ugliness!

42. Industry is the root of all ugliness. — Oscar Wilde

43. It’s as if inside the White House the belief in Obama’s inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it’s a startling revelation. — Tina Brown

44. The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful? — Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair

45. It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature. — Napoleon Hill

46. She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. — Truman Capote

47. Whatever may happen, the memories of then will always remain, ever so sweetly with me, nothing to tarnish it. Not even the ugliness of reality. — Saim Cheeda

48. Do not you realize you’re talking to another person’s ugliness yourself when you’re talking about someone else? — Mochamad Fathurizqon Mutiudin

49. Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. — Ouida

50. Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, –which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conclusion

Remember that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Ugliness is in the eyes of the beholder, and what may be ugly to one person may be beautiful to another. No matter what, it’s important to recognize that everyone is beautiful in their own way, and we should celebrate our uniqueness.