“Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if… — Benjamin Hoadly Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless.… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished,… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
