Barack Obama Quotes, Exercise Quotes, Vanity Quotes

I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and you've had your fill of your name in the papers, or big adoring crowds, or the exercise of power. And for me that happened fairly quickly. And then you are really focused on: What am I going to get done with this strange privilege that's been granted to me? How do I make myself worthy of it?

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

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And not a vanity is given in vain.

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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Taoism Quotes

Vanity is my favourite sin.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Sin Quotes

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Giving Quotes

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Giving Quotes

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Vanity Quotes

I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Doubt Quotes

The French courage proceeds from vanity

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Years Quotes