Vain Glory Quotes

#1. Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vain-glory is the bane of us, the humans.

Mary Oliver

#2. He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

Francis Quarles

#4. If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

Poemen

#5. I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.

George Washington

#6. Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.

Martin Luther

#7. I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

#8. Some know, but to know. Some know, to be known. Some know, to practise what they know. Now, to know, but to know - that is curiosity. To know, to be known - that is vain glory. But to know, to practise what we know - that is gospel duty.

Matthew Mead

#9. It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

William Shakespeare

#10. Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don't chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story in the ink of purpose!

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

William Dunbar

#12. Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

Anthony Horowitz

#13. We aspire to make artisanal tortillas on an industrial scale.

Steve Ells

#14. Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#15. I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

Christina Aguilera

#16. Of course, as everyone knows, neither my five books nor any five hundred books are sufficient to silence and pertinacity. It is the glory of vain men never to yield to the truth.

Augustine Of Hippo

#17. I hate The Police so much I'd probably assassinate Sting,
My System of a Down Rages Against the Machine.
Tie you up in a Slipknot and hold Alice In Chains inside her dreams.

Chino XL

#18. It's always been good here at Edenlove to keep coming here and entertain the crowd.

Rohit Sharma

#19. Time was a villain who couldn't be forgotten, but infamy would last forever.

Debra Anastasia

#20. ALL LOSSES IN THIS WORLD ARE DUE TO A LACK OF ABILITY. IF YOU WANT TO CURSE SOMETHING, CURSE YOUR OWN WEAKNESS

Sui Ishida

#21. Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.

George Sewell

#22. I get up at 4:30 A.M. pretty much every morning during the week. I work out for an hour and a half. I do weights and I ride the bike, I run or I play tennis. It's my release.

Cheri Bustos

#23. Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed.

Ellen J. Barrier

#24. As I am from Hawai'i, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

Nainoa Thompson

#25. The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

Diane Keaton

#26. Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.

Hannah More

#27. God doesn't understand you killing innocent men. God doesn't understand. I don't understand and I don't want to understand.

S.A. David

#28. Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.

Joseph Delaney

#29. Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul

Abdul-Qadir Gilani

#30. Do not give your most cherish dreams.
Dreams are scriptures.
Dreams are possibilities.
Dreams always come true.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. My cruel fate hath warr'd with me in vain
Life, glory, worth, and all unmeasur'd skill
Beauty and grace, themselves in me fulfill
That many I surpass, and to the best attain.

Benvenuto Cellini

#32. To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court

Philip Sidney

#33. George Stout saw through their acts. "I am sick of all schemers," he wrote, "of all the vain crawling toads who now edge into positions of advantage and look for selfish gain or selfish glory from all this suffering."13

Robert M. Edsel

#34. Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

Michael R. Burch

#35. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain... Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives, they realize they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.

Borje Vahamaki

#36. The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
[Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.]

Sallust

#37. He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

John Calvin