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“There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.”

Ifs Self Artist Values Creative Expression Products Fame Enjoyed Vans Self Expression Composing Complement Composing Music

Book:What Price Fame?

Source: What Price Fame?

“If you were to ask me whether you need a dictatorship to run India, No, you do not. Whether you need a powerful person who believes in concentrating power, No, you do not. If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.”

Ifs Needs Believe Persons Running Values Asks Wealth Powerful Doubt Fame India Democratic Prosperity Ask Me Dictatorship Concentrating Powerful Person Democratic Values

Author:Narendra Modi

“I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.”

Real School Values Class Issues Middle Fame Understood Middle Class Lots Of Money Real Value Middle Class Family

Author:Suresh Raina

“As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.”

May Said States Certain Values Interest Genius Fame Letters Raises Leaving Improvement Stealing Impression Sentiments Heirs Monarchs Commonwealth Plagiarism Prerogative

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne

“That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.”

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Author:Jennifer Hudson

“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

“After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?”

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Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.”

Persons Values Fame Villain Fades Honored

Author:Sidney Mohede