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Vanity Quotes
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.
Ryan Holiday
Work
,
Goals
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Freedom
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Power
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Respect
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.
T. E. Lawrence
Dreams
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Eyes
,
Day
,
Men
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Night
,
Dream
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
Ignorance
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Pride
,
Arrogance
,
Characters
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.
DeWitt Clinton
Knowledge
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Power
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Shadow
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Space
,
Wealth
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand
Reason
,
Quicksand
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.
Pope Francis
Beautiful
,
Truth
,
Reality
,
You
,
Look
Vanity is my favourite sin.
Al Pacino
Sin
,
Favourite
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
Marguerite Gardiner
Respect
,
Look
,
Ignorant
,
Monuments
,
Up
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.
Julia Roberts
Snow
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Science
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Today
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People
,
Youth
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
Women
,
Good
,
Beautiful
,
Live
,
Myself
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van Gogh
Ambition
,
Men
,
Youth
,
Become
,
Must
,
Our
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley
Wise
,
Myself
,
I Am
,
Nothing
,
Fools
,
Go
Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
James Stephens
Feeling
,
Personal
,
Beyond
,
Lies
,
Our
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
Elizabeth Smart
Life
,
Nature
,
You
,
Earth
,
Absolutely
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen
Head
,
Weak
,
Working
,
Every
,
Sort
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain
Man
,
Animal
,
Dumb
,
Like
,
Because
,
Just
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.
Jane Austen
Words
,
Proud
,
Opinion
,
Pride
,
Think
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
Taylor Swift
Myself
,
Insecurity
,
Feel
,
Distance
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Great
,
Welcome
,
Influence
,
Need
,
Seek
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel de Montaigne
Shadow
,
World
,
Play
,
Nothing
,
One Word
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal
Knowledge
,
Science
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Time
,
Ignorance
,
Me
I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.
Lex Luger
Nature
,
Age
,
God
,
Me
,
Pride
,
Help
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.
Victor Hugo
Woman
,
Curiosity
,
Grace
,
Fall
,
Her
,
Word
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Patience
,
People
,
Own
,
Offensive
,
Our
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
George Michael
Business
,
Ego
,
Pretend
,
Whole
,
Crap
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Christina Rossetti
Beauty
,
Hope
,
Truth
,
Eyes
,
Joy
,
Youth
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