Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

Fame is no sure test of merit.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

None of those who have been raised to a loftier height by riches and honours is really great.

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

We choose not to be remarkable because we’re worried about criticism.

Lying in a featherbed will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

Achievement has no color

Don’t work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.