A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
– Jane Austen
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- The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence. – Dada Bhagwan
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- False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- When your wife asks you for your opinion, she doesn’t really want your opinion. She wants her opinion – just in a deeper voice. – T Rafael Cimino
- Always have your own opinion and build upon that. Person without opinion is just like a dead soul!!! – Santosh Adbhut Kumar
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- …most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same. – Idries Shah
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- A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself. – Bill Courtney
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