Humility is a right estimate of one's self.
C. H. Spurgeon Insight Magazine
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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Anne Sophie Swethchine Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: vanity dignity appearances

What ills from beauty spring.
Samuel Johnson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: vanity conceit selfishness

If you think you're tops, you won't do much climbing.
Arnold Glasow The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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He that is too proud to ask is too good to receive.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring;
but beauty faded has no second spring.
Ambrose Phillips The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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The tragedy of our time is that we are so eye centered, so appearance besotted.
Jessamyn West Simple Abundance
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age growth change materialism vanity

The higher the ape climbs the more he shows his rump.
French proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: vanity conceit pride ambition

Neither fear nor love of self changes the soul.
Bernard of Clairvaux Weavings, March/April 1999
Categories: fear ego self-centeredness narcissism vanity

When people get it into their heads that they are being specially favoured by the Almighty, they had better as a general rule mind their p's and q's.
Samuel Butler Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: conceit vanity faith fanaticism

My pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare (As You Like It) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
William Shakespeare (King John) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: appearances vanity conceit materialism

Appear always what you are and a little less.
Greek proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: vanity conceit pride humility humbleness

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
William Hazlitt Categories: excellence goals vision conceit ego vanity

How many crimes committed merely because their authors could not endure being wrong!
Albert Camus The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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There was one who thought he was above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: beauty appearances vanity pride conceit

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
Russian proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Our strength is often composed of the
Mignon McLaughlin Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: strength pride weakness authenticity vanity

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
William Shakespeare [Troilus and Cressida] Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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We are apt to love praise, but not to deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: humility pride conceit vanity virtue character

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
King Solomon Proverbs 16:18, Holy Bible
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Appearances aren't everything.
American proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: looks lookism appearances clothes vanity conceit pride

Spiritual growth requires the acknowledgment of one's need to grow.
M. Scott Peck Categories: spirituality growth self-improvement self-awareness pride vanity

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day might bring forth.
King Solomon Proverbs 27:1, Holy Bible
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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The only way to escape the corruption of praise is to go on working...There is nothing else.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: humility work effort conceit pride vanity fame

He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: pride vanity conceit growth learning education self-esteem

Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: pride conceit vanity talking bragging boorish behavior

I charge thee, fling away ambition;
By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare (King Henry VIII) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: ambition desire greed avarice vanity pride modesty humility

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character faults ignorance stupidity vanity pride arrogance mistakes

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude ego condescension conceit vanity pride respect humility humble

A fool uttereth all his mind.
King Solomon Proverbs 29:11
Categories: foolishness talk bragging boasting conceit vanity pride blabbermouth

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He's got to keep on delivering as he goes along.
Carl Hubbell The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: reputation pride conceit vanity success work effort vision service

You are as young as you feel after trying to prove it.
Lou Erickson Words for All Occasions
Categories: mid-life crisis male menopause age aging change vanity conceit pride

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again--this is the brave and happy life.
J.E. Buchrose The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happy love loving relationships friendships trust family families vanity pride hurt pain courage bravery life

Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.
Max Beerbohm The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: sense of humor humor humility pride vanity conceit perspective character proportion

A quarter of an inch of new snow last night, putting down a thin dusting in the woods: the dark brown points of fallen leaves curl up through the snow, making a speckled, polka-dotted forest floor. It is almost dizzying, and beautiful. If I saw it on film, my immediate thought would be, "Too bad they didn't get more snow." In a photograph I wouldn't see the whole woods for what they are, I would be trying to correct them, improve them. It is a habit I would like to break.
John Jerome The Writing Trade: A Year in a Life
Categories: appearance vanity perfectionism inner beauty spiritual beauty

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork--reading, writing, thinking--can.
Helen Gurley Brown Treasury of Women's Quotations
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