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.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
I have been vain since birth.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Look within. Within you is the hidden God. Within you is the immortal soul. Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
I am intrigued by glamorous women ... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.
I'm not vain, I'm insecure.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
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