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Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Who would you impress if the world was blind?
— Shannon L. Alder
Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries - only those you make yourself.
— Bruce Lee
He thinks he has to save the world; he'd be glad to kill himself trying.
— Cassandra Clare
The world is full of vanities
— Sunday Adelaja
There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you ...
— Peter Shepherd
Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.
— P.N. Elrod
She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.
— W. Reece Smith Jr.
Myths are like the beams in a house: not exposed to outside view, they are the structure which holds the house together so people can live in it.
— Rollo May
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
— Baruch Spinoza
The moment we understand life, we will begin to live.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Thus the little mermaid learned her world's greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.
— Esther Dalseno
Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
— Michel De Montaigne
But she knew beyond both hope and vanity that men had changed, and the world with them, because the unicorns were gone.
— Peter S. Beagle
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.
— Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.
— Lionel Shriver
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.
— Edward Abbey
The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.
— Jen Wilkin
Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.
— Marty Rubin
False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
— Criss Jami
But do not search for the Gods in vain when it is your own heart and mind that can find the way.
— Vasileios Kalampakas
It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness
— Maureen Johnson
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
— Bantu Holomisa
Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.
— J. P. Vinluca
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.
— Josh Billings