A lot of us humans grow up wanting fame and fortune, thinking that a life with those two parts will lead to a happy and successful life. These quotes are here to prove you wrong:

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. – Henry David Thoreau

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. – Lord Byron

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. – Henry Wadsworth

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. – Horace Greeley

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. – Erma Bombeck

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon. – Anonymous

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. – Hermann Hesse

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. – Benjamin Franklin

By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever – Lao Tzu

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. – William Shakespeare

My pride fell with my fortunes. – William Shakespeare

Fortune, that favors fools – Ben Jonson

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit – Jonathan Swift

Money isn’t everything. Fame is nothing. That’s my quote.