Quotes about fame

How fast passes away the glory of this world.

And fired his soul with love of fame that was to be.

Yet love of country shall prevail, and boundless passion for renown.

And here are troops of men

who had suffered wounds, fighting to save their country,

and those who had been pure priests while still alive,

and the faithful poets whose songs were fit for Phoebus;

those who enriched our lives with the newfound arts they forged

and those we remember well for the good they did mankind.

Every man's last day is fixed.

Lifetimes are brief and not to be regained,

For all mankind. But by their deeds to make

Their fame last: that is labor for the brave.

Your honor, your name, your praise will live forever.

I must essay a path whereby I, too, may rise from earth and fly victorious on the lips of men.

Let my delight be the country, and the running streams amid the dells—may I love the waters and the woods, though I be unknown to fame.

Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.

But, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is', Nunc dimittis; when a man hath obtained worthy ends, and expectations. Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.—Extinctus amabitur idem.

Our culture mostly celebrates early successes, the people who bloom fast. But those people often wither as quickly as they bloom. [...] I don't want to know how a thirty-year-old became rich and famous; I want to hear how an eighty-year-old spent her life in obscurity, kept making art, and lived a happy life.

If there was a secret formula for becoming known, I would give it to you. But there's only one not-so-secret formula that I know: Do good work and share it with people.