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“I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)”

People Looks Doe Stills Soul Ends Desire Found Simple Fame Weakness Slave Pleasant Etc Followers Inward Royal Cloaks Shrouds

Book:Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Source: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

“There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Kind Would Be Found Secret Fame Horrible All Kinds Hiding Way To Live

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.”

Humans Found Race Successful Rich Fame Human Race Temples Niche Scoundrels Butchers Dunces Importunate

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.”

Ifs Age Turns Found Names Wish Fame Madness Mad Temper Establishment

Author:Voltaire

“Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.”

Helping Found Deals Fame Torment

Author:Mel Gibson

“I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me. I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.”

People Way Young Found Easy Type Fame Happenings Negative Very Good

Author:Al Pacino

“When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it.”

Firsts Play Bigs Hate Found Successful Records Fame I Hate Radio Journalist Reviews Radio Plays

Author:Moby

“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”

World Inspirational Lasts Found Simple Money Business Failing Honesty This World Fame Goodness Riches Genuine This Life

Book:Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys; a Sequel to

Source: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys; a Sequel to

“So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Self Found Forget Know How Focus Fame Demand Satisfied Rest Of Your Life Indulgence Think Of You Self Indulgence

Book:The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”

Ifs Has Beens Two Able Life Is Values Found Fame Achievement Sake Two Things Lasting I Have Learned Priceless Loving Life

Book:Rama II

Source: Rama II

“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”

Found Morning Fame

Author:Lord Byron

“I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.”

World Has Beens Self Success Joy Found Views Fame Findings Entrepreneur Contributing Livelihood Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

Author:Anita Roddick

“A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.”

World Years Self Science Found Born Forget Creative Birth Honor Fame Research Years Ago Scientist Slavery Fortune South Caring Helpful Centre Found Happiness

Author:George Washington Carver

“I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.”

World Found Havens Fame Disappear Places In The World

Author:Robert Pattinson