Quotes on Fame

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:_x000D_ _x000D_ Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.