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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CCCCXXIV
- Pride
I am not concerned that I have no place; I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter IV
Do not trust to that; for these very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell1599–1658Remark to John Lambert as crowds cheered them (June 1650), as quoted by Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time
- Politics
It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
Angela Davisborn 1944“Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia” Critical Inquiry. Vol. 21, No. 1 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 37-39, 41-43 and 45.
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Fame is a fickle food (B)
I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Emily Dickinson1830–1886I’m Nobody! Who are you? (1891)In context
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson1830–1886I’m Nobody! Who are you? (1891)In context
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930A Study in Scarlet (1887), Part II: The Country of the Saints, Chapter VIIIn context
- Truth & Lies
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Chapter VIn context
- Work
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary … Fame and success are very different things, anyway.
Enyaborn 1961The Times Magazine interview (2005)
- Success
I don’t think the thing is to be well known, but being worth knowing.
Robert Fulghumborn 1937Robert Fulghum: Philosopher King
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.
Thomas Fuller1608–1661The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Fame
The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
Thomas Fuller1608–1661The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Tombs
- Time
The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it’s every breathing moment of my life. I’m always saying something about art and music and fame.
Lady Gagaborn 1986The world goes crazy for Lady Gaga (2009)
- Art
The deed is everything, the glory nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust, Part 2 (1832), Act IV, A High Mountain Range