Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in...

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Prosperity: Great leaders teach other leaders the infinite intelligence that enables them to have plenty of all things and live the good life.

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I’m a human being like everyone else. I’m not exempt.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever...

I’m already crazy. I’m a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don’t think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that’s my...

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

Quando un uomo mangia tre pasti al giorno, diventa pericoloso. Per se stesso e per gli altri. Mangiare troppo rende nervosi. Pasti continui e digestioni faticose creano le guerre. Difficilmente i morti di fame combattono...

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you’ll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

One can’t work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one’s elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor’s/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn’t equal/what daylight did.

Royal Young’s writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price...

What if, you know—what if hanging out with Griffo Gerritszoon wasn’t always that great? What if he was weird and dreamy? What if the best part of him was the shapes he could make with...

Missing what most of the time? The babbling faceless agora, the fame, the parties, the pop of flash bulbs? The lovers, the gaiety, the champagne? The solitude carved out of celebrity, poring over charts by...

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds

Don’t rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and...

Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.

Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.

Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more complication, sleaze, struggle, true beauty, unfairness, profundity, passion, and depth of consciousness than...

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can’t afford to pay back.

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it’s controlling you it doesn’t feel good at all.

A creative thought at first sight seems ridiculous and unimportant, an increase in those who cherish it reassures that hiding your creativity hides you for the rest of your life.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

What’s fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it...

Fame is a very strange animal.

We’re talking about a guy who’s going into the Hall of Fame. He’s got great presence, and what he’s accomplished in the game is pretty remarkable, especially being a catcher. It’s amazing, everybody knows about...

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his...

Fame is not the reason why brands are created and erected. Be diligent, focused and chain unceasing prayers to God who will continue giving you cheers.

Have the best course for all your actions.

There are two ways to become popular; either by setting the cat amongst the pigeons or by getting the cat out of the midst of the pigeons. The latter is better!

Fame doesn’t end loneliness.

Three quarters of respectable England hates you.””Half,” Sebastian replied with a smile. “It’s really only half. Judging by my correspondence, it may be as little as forty-eight percent. And of those, only a small number...

After seeing the results of the study, the (Hall of Fame) board felt it was important to hold an election.

In a country that doesn’t discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

The world of light and starry grace;within your mind I live to trace.Your thought’s speed in thunder’s glory,lightening my being with dream’s story.I embrace the tree carrying your nameYour unspoken wish : the heart of...

Good choice,’ Laura Said. ‘Our neighbour, Mrs Crabtree, came round this morning and she put it best. Her theory is that fame is like a bubble. It looks gorgeous on the outside, as if it’s...

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

He’s a lock for the Hall of Fame.