Vanity Quotes
The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.
Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.
Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.
Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee
If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.
Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.
It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.
Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it.
Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.
And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.
Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.
It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.
Beware of those who are too focused with polishing and beautifying their outer shells. They lack true substance to understand that genuine beauty is reflected from the heart that resides inside.
The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.
False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.
It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it
...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.
Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong
What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.
Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don't chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story in the ink of purpose!
Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.
Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge
But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.
Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded.
No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.
It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.
Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.
The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.
Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.
If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.
Things change as minds change. Egos and prides vanish in the darkness of night. The false mask of vanity burns in the natural propensity to be happy. Who wants to be sad, after all?
God would never make man in his image, because that would then make him as vain as what man is.
If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.
We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.
True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.
Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.
A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.