Fame Quotes (page 15)

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• love
• food
• lovely

Poet's food is love and fame. Percy Bysshe Shelley

• failure
• leaving
• love

Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure. From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love. Carl Sandburg

• road
• good
• common

I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• dream
• girl
• girls

I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything. Miley Cyrus

• short
• manly
• dark

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors. Marcus Aurelius

• success
• powerful
• wonder

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me. Abraham Joshua Heschel

• mindfulness
• enemy
• value

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud--that an attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality, where you become a pawn of their blindness, a slave of their non-thinking and their evasions, while their intelligence, their rationality, their perceptiveness become the enemies you have to dread and... Ayn Rand

• determination
• powerful
• power

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service. Martin Luther King jr.

• great
• writing
• book

Now I’ve given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don’t care if I write a great book anymore, but just one which, whatever its flaws, will leave a record of my impossible life. Jeffrey Eugenides

• love
• alone
• bitter

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly. Charles Darwin

• gratitude
• throw
• away

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame. Friedrich Nietzsche

• kindness
• game
• writer

A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame. John Wilmot

• people
• manly
• protect

He who advances without seeking fame, Who retreats without escaping blame, He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord, The man is a jewel of the Realm Sun Tzu

• good
• notoriety
• better

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

• white
• quality
• car

For de small stealing dey puts you in jail, soon or late. But for de big stealing dey puts yo' picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croaks! If dey's one thing I learned in ten years, listenin' to de white quality on de Pullman cars, it's dat same fact. And when I gets a chance to use it -- from stowaway to Emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some! Eugene O'Neill