Fame Quote by Edward Young

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

— Benjamin E. Mays

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like…

— Francis Bacon

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by…

— William James

It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

— Baruch Spinoza

And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

— John Wesley

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“People were always reaching for what they didn’t have—fame or wealth, youth or love, some final victory or vengeance. They chased after the prizes…

— Michael Prescott

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

— Philip Massinger

The signals of the century, Proclaims the things that are to be - The rise of woman to her place, The coming of a…

— Angela Morgan

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

— Sharon Pollock

Perhaps some day men will raise a tablet reading in letters of gold: 'All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in history who,…

— Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch