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~ A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. ~

Denis Waitley

~ Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy. ~

Erika Slezak

~ All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. ~

William James

~ I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success ~

Ingrid Bergman

~ Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ~

Francis Bacon

~ The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. ~

Blaise Pascal

~ Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds ~

Socrates

~ Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds ~

Socrates

~ The period of earthly life in your greater existence is similar to the 15 minutes of fame you get down here...Everyone gets to share you in a different way. And both are dreams. ~

Julian Casablancas

~ Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. ~

Alexander Pope

~ Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ~

John Wooden

~ Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. ~

Baltasar Gracian

~ He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. ~

Chuang-tzu

~ Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ~

Horace Greeley

~ Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. ~

Emily Dickinson

~ Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. ~

Oliver Wendell Holmes

~ Even the best things are not equal to their fame. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. ~

Francis Bacon

~ Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light ~

Sallust

~ If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. ~

Oprah Winfrey

~ What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. ~

Lord Byron

~ What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober ~

Bill Veeck

~ In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider this thought as a fly. When a fly comes to land on your arm, you don't allow the fly to remain; you just wave your hand and it goes away ~

Sri Chinmoy

~ The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. ~

William Hazlitt

~ He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. ~

Johann Ludwig Tieck

~ The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige. ~

Virginia Woolf

~ Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ~

Walter Savage Landor

~ If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ~

Robert Louis Stevenson

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