Favored with Praise

“It is fortunate to be favored with praise and popularity. It is dire luck to be dependent on the feelings of a fellow man.”
--Viking Proverb

Hollow Popularity

“Popularity is a form of success that is seldom worth the things you have to do in order to attain it.”
--Unknown

Life Trap

“The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.”
--Henri Nouwen

Character Endures

“Fame is a vapor. Popularity is an accident. Money takes wings. Those who cheer you today may curse you tomorrow. The only thing that endures is character.”
--Horace Greeley

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