“The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.”
George Michael
“Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.”
Mark Twain
“I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.”
Muhammad Ali
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.”
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Oscar Wilde
“What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are”
William Makepeace Thackeray
