Famous Fame Quotes Part – 15

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The love of fame gives an immense stimulus.

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The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign. [Lat., Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriae novissima exuitur.]

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The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name ‘fast anchored in the deep abyss of time’ is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.

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The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

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The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

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The more I blamed my misery on the fame and success I had achieved in pictures, the more famour and successful I seemed destined to become.

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The object of the labor was small, but not the fame. [Lat., In tenui labor, at tenuis non gloria.]

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The only pleasure of fame is that it proves the way to pleasure; and the more intellectual our pleasure, the better for the pleasure and for us too.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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The pursuit of fame becomes your career, and you have to spend all your time trying to look good.

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The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. [It., Non e il mondam romore alro che un fiato Di vento, che vien quinci et or vien quindi, E muta nome, perche muta lato.]

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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar’s laurel crown.

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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of dead men.

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The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

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The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age. But those of a Scott, or a Shakespeare, will be renewed, with greater and greater lustre, in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel, and the page of the chronicler.

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The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,–through much tribulation.


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