"If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy."

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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

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"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."

George Steinbrenner, American Businessman

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"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Fame, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational, Wisdom

"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Richness, Truth, Values

"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name's chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Truth, Legacy, Life

"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."

Bodhidharma, Indian Leader

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"When you're being celebrated and flying high, don't allow fanatics (fans) to elevate you so far out that you forget whose sky it is."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Fame, Celebration, Fans, Humility, Success

"Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant."

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."

"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."

"I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher."

"The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life."

"It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them."

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."

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"There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us."

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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."

"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name's chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."

"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."

"When you're being celebrated and flying high, don't allow fanatics (fans) to elevate you so far out that you forget whose sky it is."

"Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done."

"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."