This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.
Josiah Royce

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
William Penn

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
Henry Drummond

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
Max Beerbohm

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. 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

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.
Susan Collins

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Blaise Pascal

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Walter Winchell

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.
Marek Belka

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
Dave Pelzer

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich Schiller

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
Mary Wollstonecraft