Vanity Quotes - Page 31

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.

It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance . . . for that is not love. It is only fear. I am talking about having a great respect for ourselves and a gratitude for the miracle of our body and our mind.

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.