Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Clearly I've got an ego.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I have a lot of vanity.

I have been vain since birth.

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

I don't like seeking all the attention. When you start doing stuff like that, it gets into your head, you are not being yourself.

I'm vain.

In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.