“Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter ”
~François de la Rochefoucauld

“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person”
~ Mark Twain

“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
~Mark Twain

“If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”
~Vincent Van Gogh

We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]
~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

“What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own ”
~François de la Rochefoucauld

Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
~ William Shakespeare

“It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is “lighter than vanity.”
~John Bunyan

“The love of one’s own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.”
~Maria Mitchell

“A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice”
~ Walter Savage Landor

“Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.”
~ Anne Sophie Swetchine

“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
~George Savile

“Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity”
~Jean de la Bruyere

“Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this”
~ Blaise Pascal

“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”
~John Keats

Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
~George Eliot

“Religion is the highest vanity.”
~ Hebbel

A man’s own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
~Honore de Balzac

“For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory can be His work”
~Thomas Paine

“Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
~ Angelique Arnauld

“If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.”
~Josh Billings

“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem – in my opinion – to characterize our age”
~Albert Einstein

“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ”
~Confucius, Analects

“I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”
~Kahlil Gibran

“Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.”
~ J. Yahl

“The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.”
~Dante

“The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes”
~Haridas Chaudhuri

“Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence.”
~Rosalynn Carter

“I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.”
~Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault)

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
~Salvador Dalí

“The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.”
~Oscar Wilde

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ” ~Henry van Dyke

“Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. ”
~Chinese Proverb

“Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.”
~ Paul Acquasanta

So, here are some adversity quotes that should help you get that inner inspiration when you face adversity.

“There is no education like adversity.”
~Disraeli

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
~Duke Ellington

“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends”
~ John Churton Collins

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
~Winston Churchill

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.’
~Abraham Lincoln

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ”
~Norman Vincent Peale

“Depression loses its power when fresh vision pierces the darkness.”
~Peter Sinclair

“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”
~Jewish Proverb

“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
~James Buckham

“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.”
~Violeta Parra

“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”
~ Thomas Carlyle

“Adversity is the first path to truth.” ~Lord Byron

“Bad is never good until worse happens.”
~Danish Proverb

“Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.”
~William Shakespeare

“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ”
~Francis Bacon

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” ~ John Wooden

“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” ~ Zig Ziglar

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.” ~Malcolm S Forbes

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”~ Rosalynn Carter

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ~Helen Keller

“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”~ Zig Ziglar

“Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.” ~Didacus Stella

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.” ~Malcolm S. Forbes

“As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given.” ~Mary Lou Retton

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. ” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.” ~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

“Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~Mother Teresa

“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.” ~Stevie Wonder

“Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.” ~Chinese proverb

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” ~Francis Bacon

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” ~Winston Churchill

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

“No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.” ~Andrew Carnegie

“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.” ~Abraham Maslow

“Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.” ~John Henry Newman