Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truth’s sake, not even withholding his life, and believing before God that… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only… — Samuel Johnson
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts. — John Calvin
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life. — Ramakrishna
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice. — Matthew Henry
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We… — J C Ryle
Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is… — Dogen
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on… — William Christopher Handy
It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we… — Jonathan Goforth
I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to… — Drew Barrymore
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse. — Georges Bizet
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain. — Karl Kraus
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live… — David Brainerd
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain. — Mary Astell
The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the… — Evariste Galois
And I said couldn't we be more moderate? And he said why? And I said because I care about the team. And he said, 'No… — Jonathan Ive
I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not… — Saint Patrick
If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic… — James Connolly
For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams. — Sophocles
That power is in vain which is never in use. — Benjamin Whichcote
The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover… — Joshua L. Liebman
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time… — Galen
Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He… — Omar Khayyam

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