Fame Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your…

— Erica Jong

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ…

— Joseph Addison

Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.

— William Shakespeare

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

— Voltaire

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

— Marcus Aurelius

“But when considered from the unique perspective of eternity, fame and popularity aren't nearly as important as loving and being loved; status doesn't mean…

— M. Russell Ballard

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

— Socrates

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

— Vanna Bonta

The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.

— Laurence Sterne

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

— Petrarch

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

— Edward Young