You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.
It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
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 earth.
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 about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
I have a lot of vanity.
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