Pastoral Resources

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.