Quotes about Vanity

The less we feel we need to address pride, the more it has already blinded us.

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Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; remember, Lord, how short my time is; remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field; for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more.

Intellectual achievements are the result of thought con- secrated to the search for knowledge or for the beauti- ful and true in nature. Such achievements may some- times be connected with vanity and ambition, but they are not the outcome of those characteristics. They are the natural outgrowth of long and arduous effort, and of pure and unselfish thoughts.

Said the divine Gautama, the Buddha, He who gives himself up to vanity, and does not give himself up to meditation, forgetting the real aim of life and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation, and he instructed his disciples in the following Five Great Meditations:--

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?