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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Eyes Day Dreams Night

We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.

Work Freedom Respect Goals

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Proud Think Words May

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Stupidity Talks Acts

Vanity is my favourite sin.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

Elle Macpherson

Good Myself Women Beautiful

In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.

God Man Believe Think

Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.

Good Blessing Music Pride

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

Beauty Truth Joy Arrogance

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Beautiful Look Truth You

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Ignorance Pride Arrogance Characters

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

Myself Insecurity Feel Distance

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Loneliness Cure Surest

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Woman Grace Curiosity Fall

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

Funny Good You Think

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride Just Hardest Been

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Shadow Knowledge Power Space

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Wisdom Man Wise You

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Julian Casablancas

Wisdom Common Sense Sense Common

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

Fool May Upset I Can

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Weak Head Working Mischief Every

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Heart Man Woman Imagination

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

Business Ego Pretend Whole

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Money Bad Flattery Us

My routine is similar to that of a nomad. But I crave for the comforts enjoyed by a normal girl. In fact, while shooting for my debut film, 'Sanam Teri Kasam,' I turned my vanity van into my room.

Girl Shooting Room Routine

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Man Country Poor America

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