Best fame & praise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Man makes one journey all his living days, Down through the realms of music and of art; Down through the halls of fame and glorious praise; Down through the tears and triumphs of the heart To some sweet woman waiting some place there. For her he builds his cities and makes war, Seeks gold and glorious wealth to store.”

Men Heart Art War Waiting Women Wealth Cities Journey Tears Sweet Fame Gold Praise Stores Triumph Realms Glorious Halls Men Women Hall Of Fame

Author:John Updike

“All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.”

Men Earth Fit Fame Empty Praise Blind Fruit Rewards Painful Seeking Deeds Superstitions Zeal Retribution

Author:Don DeLillo

“Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.”

Feelings Wisdom Eye Suffering Loss Wise Fame Gains Praise Blame Calm Disgrace Hurricanes Gains And Losses

Author:Gautama Buddha

“There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.”

Men Mind Night Certain Names Virtue Our Lives Fame Glory Praise Endure Very Good Cease Good Man Posterity Stimulus

Book:Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Source: Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.”

Needs Feels May Hate Felt Silence Fame Praise Breaths Excellence Recognition Envious Conjunctions

Author:Washington Allston

“The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others should think us still better than we think ourselves. To praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit, but to pay a tribute. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable, and which we are desirous to strengthen by a new suffrage; we have always hopes which we suspect to be fallacious, and of which we eagerly snatch at every confirmation.”

Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.”

Knows Looks Joy Winning Know How Youth Flower Sorrow Taste Fame Twenties Praise Victim Caught Forty Gossip Caught Up Alas Concealed Advertisements Calumny Joys And Sorrows Whirlpools

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.”

Feels Littles Moments Lost Born Loss Environment Humility Failure Fame Sight Praise Humble Censure Upbraid

Author:Clara Barton

“He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.”

Mean Self Loses Opinion Alive Position Fame Praise Ill Illness Vanity Vain Sufficient Endeavor Self Sufficient

Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

“If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.”

Ifs Enough Literature Causes Fame Praise Unhappy Miserable Superficial Contributing Accolades

Author:Ethan Hawke

“There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise: Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”

Real Morning Sweet Fame Gold Praise Rose Welcome Breathing Crowns Real Friends Folds Old Friends Homage Greetings No Friends Sunflower Gaudy

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.”

Men Should Action Kindness Judging Fame Praise Neighbor Ignorant Reputation Flattery Good Will Good Neighbor Good Judges

Book:The Spectator: A New Edition

Source: The Spectator: A New Edition

“O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.”

Ifs Eye Fame Praise Sake Dear Delight Phrases Unworthy Bright Eyes Dear Ones

Book:Selected Poems of Lord Byron

Source: Selected Poems of Lord Byron

“I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.”

Thinking Men Character Hate Names Imagine He Man Fame I Hate Praise Raises Ruins Imagine That Slander Transplants Prudes

Book:Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

Source: Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.”

People Writing Voice Secret Fame Praise Blame Meetings Ill Admire Transactions Chatter Writing Poetry

Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.”

Stills Fame Praise Blame Faults Vain Not Afraid Careless Censure

Book:The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly

Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly

“O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.”

Writing Use Might Spirit Names Knowing Fame Praise Tongue Tied Tongue Tied

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems

“But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."”

Country Cold Fame Praise Uplifting Neglect Memorial Pillars Memorial Day Brass Veterans Day Memorial Day Poems Veterans Day Thank You Memorial Day Remembrance Veterans Day Poems Veteran Appreciation Veterans Day Appreciation

Book:Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence

Source: Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence

“Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.”

Thinking May Littles Flower Fame Praise Graves Buried

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

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