Vain Quotes

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

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.