Fame Quotes - Page 26

• Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Struggle, Perfect, Pearls

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men"”, p.121, Booklassic

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• If I didn't care for fun and such,
  I'd probably amount to much.
  But I shall stay the way I am,
  Because I do not give a damn.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Failure, Giving

  "Enough Rope". Book by Dorothy Parker, 1926.

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• To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

  Martial

  Ashes, Too Late, Reputation

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.25, Delphi Classics

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• Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Heart, Merit, Gains

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.179, Oxford University Press

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• A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

  Winston Churchill

  Shadow, Glitter, Reputation

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

  Denis Diderot

  Father, Order, Able

  Denis Diderot, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Henry Bowen (2001). “Rameau's Nephew and Other Works”, p.79, Hackett Publishing

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• How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Honor, Youth

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• It's shocking how bright your star is.

  Britney Spears

  Stars, Reputation, Shocking

  "Recap: ‘The X Factor’ Season 2 Finale – Performances" by Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

  Alexander Smith

  Coffins, Reputation, Melancholy

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.21

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• Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Reputation

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• A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fall, Land, Noise

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• You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.

  Paul Newman

  Real, Blessing, Appreciate

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• It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.

  Gelett Burgess

  Blood, Games, Play

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Errors, Profound, Everyday

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• Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Eye, Power, Heaven

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  People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Teenage, Crazy, Fall

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Encouragement, Names, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2593, Manonmani Publishers

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• The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.

  O. J. Simpson

  Motivational, Character, Wealth

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• I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.

  Anita Roddick

  Success, Self, Views

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• Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Passion, Wealth, Lifetime

  "5 Rules for the New Year" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2013.

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• We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Judging, Desire

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• God makes stars. I just produce them.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  God, Stars, Produce

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• Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion. To feel confusion needs great intelligence. Only the intelligent ones feel confusion; otherwise the mediocres go on moving in life, smiling, laughing, accumulating money, struggling for more power and fame. If you see them you will feel a little jealous; they look so confident, they even look happy.

  Rajneesh

  Struggle, Moving, Jealous

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• The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Liars, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Truth, Honesty

  "Exceptional Employee".

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