Fame Quotes - Page 20

• Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Heart, Thinking, Blessing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.155, Delphi Classics

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• Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought of fame; those that cleave to power cannot give the handle of it to others. While they hold their grasp of those things, they are afraid of losing them. When they let them go, they are grieved and they will not look at a single example, from which they might perceive the folly of their restless pursuits - such men are under the doom of heaven.

  Zhuangzi

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

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• Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

  Charles Churchill

  Purses, Firsts, Gypsy

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.134, London : W. Pickering

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• To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

  Bill Murray

  People, Want, Firsts

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• To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

  Alexander Smith

  Care, I Care

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

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• Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

  Alexander Pope

  Names, Church, Mark

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.261

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• Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

  Alexander Pope

  Faults, Blame, Praise

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.88

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• O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Names, Knowing

  William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.772

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• Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Common, Officers

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. 37

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• Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Fall, Greek

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.745, Wordsworth Editions

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• In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Revenge, Names

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.212, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I say, without characters, fame lives long.

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Long, Long Life

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1808). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.82

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• It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jail Time, Murder, Obvious

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.62, Crown/Archetype

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• Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . .

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Winning, Simple

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• I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Order, Ted Kennedy, Claims

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• Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.

  Madeline Miller

  Memories, Men, Hands

  Madeline Miller (2012). “The Song of Achilles”, p.347, A&C Black

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• You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ideas, Gnats

  Victor Hugo (2009). “Things Seen (Choses Vues)”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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• Love, when it came and knocked on my door, was going to be enough. And that unknown author who'd written that if you had fame, it was not enough, and if you had wealth as well, it was still not enough, and if you had fame, wealth, and also love ... still it was not enough - boy, did I feel sorry for him.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Sorry, Boys, Doors

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• Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation - all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your attachment to worldly things.

  Rajneesh

  Pain, Attachment, Essentials

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• When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Suicide, Giving Up, Writing

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• At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

  Robert Hilburn

  Order, Class, Roots

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• Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Hate, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.69, Penguin

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• When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

  John Keats

  Book, Night, Thinking

  'When I have fears that I may cease to be' (written 1818)

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• The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self Esteem, Healthy, Adulation

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

  Nikki Sixx

  Hate, Home, Thinking

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