#vanity

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#actually #best #best work #care #comes

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#everywhere #feed #find #magnanimous #more

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ↗

— George Eliot

#ease #ill #indifference #love #return

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#cruel #how #know #manage #space

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#ignorant #look #monuments #mortals #names

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#aging #better #getting #getting better #i

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#him #honor #justice #man #tells

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. ↗

— Jeremy London

#i #into #kind #lift #really

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ↗