Vanity Quotes

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 Day Eyes Dangerous Dreamers Men Minds Those Possible Dream Find Vanity Open Open Eyes Make Equally Wake Dusty May Them Act Who 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. Ryan Holiday
Work Freedom Respect Creative Goals Matter Power Important Earnest Our Peers Recognition Out Vanity Potential Pursue Accomplishments Selfishness Personal Want Fulfill Creative Work Desire
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time Expediency Cowardice Neither Must Vanity Take Safe Because Politic Nor Question Ask Popular Conscience Right Position
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 You Reality Example Hiding Inside Vanity Gives Misery Self-Absorbed Look Discover Huge Front Often Behind Them Use Whoever Illustrate Peacock
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. Ellen G. White
Music Good Blessing Satan Pride Made Vanity Folly Leads Abuse Most Attractive Souls Account Agencies Turned
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 Pride Think Vain Others Relates Our Though Ourselves Would Vanity More Without Opinion Proud Person May Often Being Different Us Used Different Things Things
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
Beautiful Myself Good You Women Not Good Enough Live Enough Else Aim Must Vanity Someone Feel Beautiful Women Am Cherish Women Are Up Taught Standards Right
Stupidity talks, vanity acts. Victor Hugo
Stupidity Vanity Talks Acts
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 Vanity Perceptions Like Call Because His Dull Dumb Just
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. Moshe Safdie
Truth Joy Arrogance Beauty Fall Considers Find Vanity Seeks Shall He Disappointed Fellow Himself Self-Expression His Pit Order Who Beings Gratification Servant
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. John Keats
Wisdom You Wise Man Will Vain Definition Neither Vanity Give He Proud Proud Man Nor Cannot Who Filled
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 Herd Out Vanity Seek Sake Influence Them Need
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Tom Wolfe
Loneliness Vanity Surest Cure
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 Wealth Space Power Frame Unlimited Pleasure Indefinite Vanity Shadow Perennial Ecstatic Duration Pageant Enjoyment
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church. Pope Francis
Attitude Church Spirituality Worldly Worst Vanity Could Sin Off Committed Which Showing Thing
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. Helen Rowland
Man Woman Heart Imagination Vanity Attract Him Stimulate His Gets May Who Appeals
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wisdom Me Culture Chapter Every Exactly Exactly What Follow Vanity Seems Headed Come Know Going Then Across
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. Miguel de Cervantes
Knowledge You Yourself Will Vanity Preserve
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. Sophie Swetchine
Dignity Enemy Our Constant Vanity
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' Martin Luther King, Jr.
Expediency Cowardice Positions Vanity Some Along Safe Politic Question Ask Popular Conscience Right
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. Dylan Thomas
Fool Become Whatever Own Increase Ease Possess Diminish Vanity Talents May Upset Ordinary Suddenly Now
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Franz Kafka
First Breath Complacency Draw Outburst Vanity Fresh Always After
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. George Michael
Business Ego Self-Satisfaction Pretend Total Vanity Built Crap Whole
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. Jean Rostand
Faith Stupidity Cruelty Bad See Vanity Direction Facing Outrage Fail Array Falsehood Same Same Direction Iniquity Whole
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. Michel de Montaigne
World Word Nothing One Word Vanity Shadow Just Play
I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become. Vanity
Time Miserable Become Nights Spent Vanity Hating Entire Entire Time Days Crying Who Many
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