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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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

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Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Death Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Self praise is no praise at all.

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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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

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Contempt Quotes

It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

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The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Fire Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Vanity Quotes , May Quotes

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Pride Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Pride And Prejudice Book 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