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“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”

Knows Giving Ideas Moving Girl Goal Boys Fame Pursue No Idea Lightness Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness

Author:Milan Kundera

“I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.”

Giving Fame Give Me Fairness Paraphrase

Author:Jon Krakauer

“Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”

Ifs Giving Heart Soul Dream Light Moving Goal Prayer Liberty Laughing Bears Praying Fame And Love Give Me Endure Lips Riches Lust Esteem Life And Death Scorn I Pray

Book:Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

“This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.”

Giving Family Knowing Fame Family Love Helping Hand About Family Love Your Family Love And Family

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.”

Giving Children Whole Running Life Is Given Laughing Cry Fame Harmony Errors Whole Life Immortality Isolation Love Life Shaking Merciful

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.”

People Ifs Men Giving Art Ends Might Beautiful Young Desire Dies Girl One Thing Fame Give Me Envy Saved Impression Young Man Representatives Abstraction Reproach Beautiful Girl

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.”

Ifs Want Giving Feels Should Writing Years Kind Goal Goes On Fame Giving Up Suicide Fortune Satisfaction What You Want Commit Personal Satisfaction

Author:Dashiell Hammett

“Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.”

Way Giving Values Taught Fame Folks Worthy Impressed

Author:Bear Grylls

“There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.”

Thinking Giving Doe Reason Facts Passion Causes Rich Fame Supreme Fulfillment Reign True Meaning

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.”

Giving Drink Fame Safety Drinking Alcohol Beer Pot Cowardice Drank Pubs Beer Drinking Drinking Beer Brewing Ale Brewing Beer Drinking Whiskey Whiskey Drinking Irish Beer

Author:William Shakespeare

“The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.”

Love Giving Fame Glory Immense Stimulus

Author:Ovid

“If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.”

Ifs Way Giving Care Fun Failure Amount Fame Damn

Author:Dorothy Parker

“It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.”

People Giving Feels Kind Doe Feelings Hurt Walks Fame Happenings Privilege Envy Clothings Say Anything Up To You

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.”

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“In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces. The great general never lost heart. When things were at their worst, he drafted his famous order which is now in all textbooks of military strategy: "My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!"”

“Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought of fame; those that cleave to power cannot give the handle of it to others. While they hold their grasp of those things, they are afraid of losing them. When they let them go, they are grieved and they will not look at a single example, from which they might perceive the folly of their restless pursuits - such men are under the doom of heaven.”

Thinking Men Giving Looks Might Heaven Wealth Example Fame Giving Up Losing Pursuit Handle Perceive Folly Distinction Not Giving Up Restless Revenue Doom

Author:Zhuangzi

“There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.”

Ifs Giving States Funny Success Advice Fame Be Good Greek Mislead Good Advice Unwritten Giving Advice Unwritten Rules

Author:Robert Foster Bennett

“Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that the public will experience a catastrophic loss if he does not complete his novel. The public is just clamoring to give him his fame. From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction by”

Ifs Giving Writing Believe Doe Book Reason Loss Powerful Fiction Novel Greatness Keys Fame Evidence Dare Delusion Great Writers

Author:Leonard Bishop

“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”

Giving Art Artist Fame Art Is Rewards Congratulations Intoxication

Author:Jean Cocteau

“It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.”

Giving Feels Bits Levels Security Fame Give Me Relief Privacy Non Stop

Author:Robert Pattinson

“When the whole world is watching you, they create stories and give you labels that have nothing to do with you. It's almost impossible for you not to explode!”

World Giving Whole Watches Fame Whole World Labels

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.”

Giving Earth Morality Fame Giving Up Immoral

Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you.”

Giving May Moments Earth Situation Practice Virtue Circumstances Comfort Fame Giving Up Sublime Immoral Assured Moments Of Life Dishonorable

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.”