Ambitious Quote by Joseph Addison

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to…

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for…

— David Hume

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

— Richard Steele

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves,…

— William Gilmore Simms

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.…

— Dennis Lehane

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.

— William Hazlitt

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

— Bertrand Russell

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with…

— Jacques Barzun

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the…

— Elizabeth Smart

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

— Taylor Swift