Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Fame

• Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Woods, Stuff

• If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Idols, Fame, Holy

• What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Giving, Half

• Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, Fall, Night

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