“Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.”
Emily Dickinson
“Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.”
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
“What you want is fame?Then note the price:All claimTo honor you must sacrifice.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?”
Chanakya