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“We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.”

Men Want Care Nations Love Is Fame Gold And Love Welfare Silver Want Me Popularity Who Cares Gold And Silver

Author:Brigham Young

“A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.”

Needs Nations Half Fame Importance Notes Explanation Dozen

Book:Persuasion In Modern English

Source: Persuasion In Modern English

“Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.”

People Giving Nations Wealth Leader Fame Harm Lives Of Others

Author:Allen W. Wood

“In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.”

Men Long Has Beens Given Nations Pleasure Path Risk Journey Greatness Fame Men And Women Labor Prosperity Riches Settling Makers Leisure Obscure Hearted Shortcuts Doers Rugged Faint Hearted

Author:Barack Obama

“We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.”

Doe Dies Fighting Nations Wealth Dark One Day Fame Mountain Glory Strive Tiny Cease Dust Flames Meaningless Heartbeat Flicker

Author:David Gemmell

“Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.”

“A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.”

Doe Fall Nations Generations Land Fame Remains Noise Reputation Monument

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.”

Thinking Trying Different Sometimes Nations Numbers Fame Angry Cooking Fishes Cooks Whales Great Nations Dwarfs Laos Small Fish Lao Tzu

Author:William Carlos Williams