Career Quote by Luc de Clapiers

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

— Vance Havner

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

— George Santayana

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

— David Bowie

The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the greatest that…

— Elias Lyman Magoon

Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

— Baruch Spinoza

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that…

— Anonymous

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

— Samuel Johnson

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

— Tacitus

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as…

— George Eliot

Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

— Henry David Thoreau