#vanity

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#balance #considerations #day #derives #die

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#exposure #fair #full #gives #great

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#automobile #begins #chain #country #distinction

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#clothes #fashion #fine #folly #loving

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#also #becoming #demons #feelings #found

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#dishonest #free #heart #life #man

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#am #beautiful #cherish #else #enough

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#pretty #retire #something #upon #vanity

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#different #different person #getting #into #like

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#behind #contempt #impersonal #personal #their