Vanity Quotes - Page 28

• Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Prayer, Greatness

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Fool, Folly

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• After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fame, Everlasting

  "The meditations of Marcus Aurelius". Book by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Jeremy Collier, archive.org. 1887.

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Hands

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Men, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.118

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• A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Atmosphere, Conceit, Certain

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• The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Bird, Vices

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.21

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• What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

  Bertrand Russell

  Needs, Satisfaction, Glory

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.449, Routledge

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• Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.

  Paul Gauguin

  Believe, Littles, Matter

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• Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Glasses, Competition, Ego

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

  William Saroyan

  Facts, Recognition, Extremes

  "Here Comes There Goes You Know Who". Book by William Saroyan, 1961.

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• Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore, be a Phocion or Pythagorean, to speak briefly to the point or not at all; let him labor like them of Crete, to show more wit in his discourse than words, and not to pour out of his mouth a flood of the one, when he can hardly wring out of his brains a drop of the other.

  Herbert Spencer

  Running, Men, Brain

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• There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.

  Alberto Moravia

  Book, Heart, Self

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• Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

  William Graham Sumner

  Motivation, Four, Action

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

  Edmund Stoiber

  Political, Berlin, Becoming

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• Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?

  Walter J. Phillips

  Spiritual, Artist, Heaven

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• While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Pride, Gestures

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• The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Self, Expression, Simplicity

  Alexander von Humboldt, Aimè Bonpland (1852). “Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804”, p.415

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• How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour's Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines. Beware of entering into any manner of treaty with the Enemy; do not delude yourself by listening to him while intending to reject him.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Attachment, Flying

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.249, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.

  Jim Morrison

  Envy, Feelings, Desire

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• Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

  Harold B. Lee

  Kindness, Mean, Indulge In

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• Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right and what's wrong. I can't tell anymore. I could be doing what I feel is right and perhaps I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps it's all my ego and my vanity. Please show me what's right or don't even show me. Please just do it, whether it brings me happiness or unhappiness, riches or poverty, sorrow or joy. Please act in and through me. I love only you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Joy, Ego

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• We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Hate, Yoga

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• What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.

  Tom Ford

  Pride, Different, Narcissism

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