The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
I don't know that praise is always a good thing.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.