Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Change, Sympathy

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 7 (1838)

• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.44

• 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 Longfellow

  Success, Congratulations, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Hyperion”, p.66

• Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fate, Destiny, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1877, Delphi Classics

• Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Character, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.37

• The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Home, Thinking, Enthusiasm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

• Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Leaving, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.38

• The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Sight, Bridges

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

• Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Tree, Growth, Age

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

• The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the place where their ashes repose, Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes. They died in their glory, surrounded by fame, And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim; They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Warrior, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Elisha Scudder (1922). “The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow”

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