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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
John Milton
The thirst for an enduring fame is near akin to the love of true excellence; but the fame of the moment is a dangerous possession and a bastard motive; and he who does his acts in order that the echo of them may come back as a soft music in his ears, plays false to his noble destiny as a Christian man, places himself in continual danger of dallying with wrong, and taints even his virtuous actions at their source.
William Ewart Gladstone, The Lif
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
William Hazlitt
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
Henry David Thoreau
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred A. Allen
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden
What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!
John Wolcot
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Doris Lessing
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.
Paulo Coelho
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
Martin Luther King Jr.
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.
Virginia Woolf
When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame
Samuel Johnson
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
