A Quote by Jerome K. Jerome
Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.
Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.
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