Quote by Jane Austen

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.

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more

Summary

This quote suggests that pride and vanity are two distinct concepts. While pride is about having a positive self-perception and belief in one's own worth, vanity is driven by the desire for others to perceive us in a particular way. Pride is an internal state, an acknowledgement of one's achievements and self-worth, whereas vanity focuses on external validation and the need to be admired by others. Thus, this quote highlights the importance of maintaining a healthy sense of pride while avoiding becoming consumed by vanity and seeking excessive external validation.

Topics

Inspirational Life

By Jane Austen

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Even though these technological advances originally sought t

Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they have done just the opposite. The electronic office promised to reduce paper work and lessen work loads, but it has, in fact, generated more information that must sill be printed and -even more challenging-be assimilated. Since computers entered office systems, paper utilization has increased six-fold.

Information

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misse

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

Business

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't wo

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Marriage

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornersto

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

I think that you love who you love, and there are people who

I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.

Love People

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impo

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.

Life Knowledge Philosophy Existentialism

President means chief servant

President means chief servant

Politics

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arro

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

George Santayana

Anger

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpo

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

Thornton T. Munger

Purpose

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very s

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

Food

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Truth

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgiv

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

Authors & Writing