A Quote by Luc de Clapiers

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

Luc de Clapiers

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Asks Deserves Fame Only Practice Seeks Virtue

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Luc de Clapiers
French - Writer
August 6, 1715 - May 28, 1747

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

Vanna Bonta

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

Cintra Wilson

For the young, the practice of equitation is a valuable lesson, as it requires the exercise of all human virtue. If they are introduced to the practice of riding by understanding and patient teachers, then they too will develop these traits. The young rider grows to realize the horse is a partner rather than a slave who also deserves love and understanding.

Nuno Oliveira

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

Petrarch

The thing about fame is, you want it your whole life, but no matter how bright you are, no one ever asks themselves why they want fame. You never really know what it is until you have it. You can never tangibly feel your own fame.

Sharon Needles

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, you feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao.

Laozi

Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because if you practise a virtue it is no longer a virtue. A practised virtue is a dead thing, a dead weight. Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.

Rajneesh

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Apollonius of Tyana

Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.

Richard Hovey

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Juvenal

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

Alec Waugh

They had to debate whether Joe Frazier should be in the Boxing Hall of Fame or not. I'm making sure that it would be a felony to sit down and debate whether or not Bernard Hopkins deserves to be in the hall of fame.

Bernard Hopkins

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.