Dave Blood Quotes

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

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.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

I should have more vanity.

Every one thinks highly of his own

Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

I absolutely do care what people think about me.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

If you start having to tell people you're cool, you're not.

I don't think anyone gets bored of being called good-looking. We are all vain in one way or another.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

I want to look good when people see me.

Clearly I've got an ego.

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.