Fame Quotes - Page 27

• There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life Is, Pleasure, Where You Are

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). “The Newcomes : memoirs of a most respectable family”, p.167

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• Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Memorial Day, Hero, Heart

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• Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

  Alexander the Great

  Leaving, Risk, Lovely

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• I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Long, Enough

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

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• The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

  Samuel Johnson

  Powerful, Men, Numbers

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.125

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• Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone...

  Tupac Shakur

  Good Night, Rap, Names

  Song: What Of Fame?

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• To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Mind, Privilege

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.197

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• In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.

  George Washington Carver

  Success, Real, Dark

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• Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown
  Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?
  As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
  I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

  Alexander Pope

  Children, Writing, Numbers

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.274

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• The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.

  Dionne Warwick

  People, Problem, Obsession

  "This much I know: Dionne Warwick" with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider this thought as a fly. When a fly comes to land on your arm, you don't allow the fly to remain; you just wave your hand and it goes away.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Hands, Land

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• It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Loss, Long, Age

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• I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

  Molly Ringwald

  Daughter, Mother, Reality

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• I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Daughter, Mother, Wife

  "Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

  George Washington Carver

  Caring, Science, Self

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• Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

  Albert Einstein

  Marie

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• The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Science, Self

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1969). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.

  Richard Hamming

  Errors, Small Problems, Tree

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• The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Desire, Lasts

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.143, London : Macmillan

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• Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

  Tacitus

  Men, Lasts, Given

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• Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all.

  Zhuangzi

  Life, Thinking, Heaven

  Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA

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• Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Archer, Feet

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• You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Powerful, Frustration

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 16, 2014

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• I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

  Winston Churchill

  Dark, Islands, Descending

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.146, A&C Black

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• A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Joy, Robins

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.91

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