Fame Quote by Isaac Newton

“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem lightly.”

— Thomas Paine

“What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it's dearness only that gives everthing its value.”

— Thomas Payne

“making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires…

— Oscar Wilde

“If I have been more backward in seeking her society, it is because I do not like her, and my acquaintance amongst those whom…

— Sarah Harriet Burney

“There are plenty of people, in need of our attention, who have very little with which to repay us. But I feel that we…

— Lloyd C. Douglas

“I found this hardly comforting, and wondered if there was not some virtue in the quality of insincerity.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“When offered an opportunity, use it diligently and wisely because others wished for it but could not have it.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“It has always indeed been my disposition not only to set the highest esteem upon all kinds of learning, but to regard with the…

— Nicola Tallis

“Had been bulky men, quietly content, who, in our first youth, had come to grasp our own unremarkableness and had, cheerfully (as if bemusedly…

— George Saunders

“When choosing friends, I seek quality, not quantity.”

— Charles F. Glassman

“Wanting what others have, can only diminish what you already have”

— Darlene Dawne

“Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well…

— Louisa May Alcott