Applause Quote by Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

— Charles Sumner

One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the…

— George Stillman Hillard

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

“When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Fame can't give you a hug. Fame can't keep you warm. The only way fame can keep you warm, is if you put all…

— Marcia Matthews

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must…

— Washington Allston

“We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money…”

— Thomas Bernhard

“Only the existence of a public realm and the world’s subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them…

— Hannah Arendt

Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far…

— William P King

Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone…

— Anonymous

Fame is bought by happiness.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the…

— George Washington