Fame Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Law, And Love

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• Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Tongue, Appearance

  William Wilkie Collins (1871). “The woman in white”, p.198

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• A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

  William Faulkner

  Opportunity, Men, Evil

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Jamie glanced at her notes. "So let's be honest, Jacks, can we? What is the best part of being an Angel? Is it the lifestyle? Is it the parties? The fame? What's your favourite part?" "Just having this chance," he said after considering. "And what chance is that?" Jamie asked. Jacks's blue eyes twinkled. "The chance to be a hero.

  Scott Speer

  Party, Hero, Eye

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• Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Names, Peaceful

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• When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame or working all the time or eating your way through the refrigerator, being hateful and angry is a very handy shield from the truth. It lets you focus on everyone else's shortcomings, and all the ways they have let you down. You can bemoan how all these broken people keep finding you somehow. That way you don't have to focus on what really matters -- the tough work of fiing what is broken inside you.

  Glenn Beck

  Drinking, Broken Inside, People

  Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Fame is a form of misunderstanding.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Form, Misunderstanding

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• Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

  Neil Gaiman

  Obscurity, Notoriety

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• Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

  Dr. Seuss

  Lonely, Fun, Winning

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

  Homer

  Winning, Men, Hands

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• It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care.

  Kristin Hannah

  Taken, Years, Track

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• We don’t do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.

  Derek Landy

  Satisfaction, Credit, World

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• People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

  Dennis Prager

  People, Drug, Attention

  Dennis Prager (1995). “Think a Second Time”, Harpercollins

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• Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

  David Markson

  Dream, Lonely, I Had A Dream

  David Markson (1988). “Wittgenstein's Mistress”

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• Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, Sports, Time

  'Volpone' (1605) act 3, sc. 5.

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• People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

  Cullen Hightower

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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• I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

  Elvis Presley

  Leadership, Business, People

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• He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

  Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

  Confidence, Lost, Loses

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• Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

  Simeon Strunsky

  Knowledge, Remarks, Quotations

  No Mean City ch. 38 (1944)

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• Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Too Much, Knows

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

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• When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Love Is, Towns

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.446, GENERAL PRESS

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