vain

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

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.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

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.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

It is not in vain that people frequent this planet, Nor is it for nothing they depart hence.