Ramakrishna Quotes, Running Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity. The water of God's grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

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Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

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Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

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What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

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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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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

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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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Self praise is no praise at all.

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Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.

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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

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The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

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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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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

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