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«Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.»
Author: Jean Baptiste Lacordaire | Keywords: fame, greatness
«Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.»
Author: John Wooden | About: God, Talent | Keywords: careful, conceit, conceits, fame, grateful, humble, humbles, humbling, self-giving, talent, The Grateful, with conceit
«Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.»
Author: M. G. Siriam | About: Fame, Internet | Keywords: fame, looking at, net, netting, pages, proliferation, The Net, web, web page
«Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.»
Author: Doris Lessing (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: fame, obtain
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: alarmed, alarming, ambitious, at rest, authors, betters, clock, dormitory, dreariest, dreary, dumped, dumping, dumps, envy, eternal rest, fame, Higher Ground, High Hopes, meeting place, oblivion, Pride and, storage, struggling, The Alarm, The State, wicked
«Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Fame | Keywords: fame, give, In the money, money, moneys, Out the money, rather
«There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere | Keywords: concludes, concluding, fame, pursuit, sketch, sketched, sketches, toilsome, trade
«Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | About: Fame, Love | Keywords: fame, nothingness, shore, sink, wide
«Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore (Essayist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: fame, immortality, The Dead
«The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.»
Author: Sun Tzu (Author, General) | Keywords: Advances, country, coveting, covets, disgrace, disgraced, disgraces, do good, fame, fearing, general, His country, jewel, kingdom, protect, retreated, retreating, retreats, sovereign, sovereigns, The General, The Kingdom
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