If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.
James DeanTags: fame immortality
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Jimi HendrixTags: fame plagiarism fans
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
Louisa May AlcottTags: money honesty goodness fame honor business riches
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTags: inspirational fame immortality
The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.
Vladimir NabokovTo hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
Alfred de VignyWhat a waste of time to be posthumously famous.
Orson Scott CardTags: fame
I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William T. ShermanTags: fame journalism glory
The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame.
Gustave FlaubertNever throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore RooseveltTags: fame struggle achievement
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