Best fame & rewards Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.”

Ifs Men Feels Heart Worst Taste Fame Labor Rewards Possession Reputation Frivolous

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.”

Children Work Class Hero Fame Stones Rewards Halls Working Class Statues Hall Of Fame Working Class Hero

Author:Alan Jackson

“As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.”

Country Young Process Roles Successful Economic Achieve Example Possibility Fame Essentials Elements Rewards Gender Dedicated Gender Roles

Author:Lydia Sigourney

“All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.”

Men Earth Fit Fame Empty Praise Blind Fruit Rewards Painful Seeking Deeds Superstitions Zeal Retribution

Author:Don DeLillo

“If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.”

Ifs Should Past Fame Blessed Fortune Fruit Rewards Seeds Dharma Being Blessed Great Reward

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.”

Memories Virtue Offers Fame Rewards Splendid Posterity Me Alone

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?”

Ifs Virtue Greater Fame Embrace Rewards Thirst

Author:Juvenal

“The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]”

Ifs Virtue Greater Fame Majors Embrace Rewards Thirst

Author:Juvenal

“Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.”

“One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the intellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the faithful discharge of honorable duty a satisfaction which is its own reward.”

Source: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

“I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards.”

People Looks Persons Courses Individual Pay Effects Example Fame Rewards Limitation Marvelous Marvelous Things

Author:J. K. Rowling

“There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.”

Source: Les Misérables

“But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.”

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Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.”

Life Art Beautiful Fame Art Is Experience Rewards Bad Ass Intoxication

Author:Cyril Connolly

“This position will not be disputed so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct, or that the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty. Even the love of fame, the ruling passion of the noblest minds... would on the contrary deter him from the undertaking, when he foresaw that he must quit the scene before he could accomplish the work.”

“We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?”

Thinking Should Wisdom Action Winning Fame Degrees Sight Raises Rewards Deeds Islamic Good Deeds Already Won

Author:Ibn Hazm

“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

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