“Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.”
Benjamin Franklin
ReputationCaution
Famous Quotes
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Famous Quotes
Read 200 of the best famous quotes about fame, reputation, glory and being remembered, from Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Milton, Franklin and more.
“I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.”
Cato the Elder
HumilityMerit
“Bread and circuses.”
Juvenal
PopularitySociety
“Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.”
Aesop
ContentmentHumility
“They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.”
Aesop
CreditHumility
“Go away! I too will wag my tail in the mud.”
Chuang Tzu
FreedomSimple Life
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
David Hume
HumilityPerspective
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
Voltaire
ResponsibilityLegacy
“Talent is formed in stillness, character in the world's torrent.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
TalentCharacter
“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”
Friedrich Schiller
WisdomFunny
“Popularity? It is glory's small change.”
Victor Hugo
PopularityGlory
“If you can walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch.”
Rudyard Kipling
HumilityCharacter
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
George Eliot
Quiet HeroesLegacy
“Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?”
The Bible (Proverbs 20:6)
Self-PromotionFaithfulness
“A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.”
The Bible (Proverbs 29:23)
PrideHumility
“But whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.”
The Bible (Matthew 20:26-27)
GreatnessService
“And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues.”
The Bible (Matthew 23:6)
StatusVanity
“How are the mighty fallen!”
The Bible (2 Samuel 1:19)
DownfallGrief
“Is not this great Babylon, that I have built by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?”
The Bible (Daniel 4:30)
PridePower
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!”
The Bible (Isaiah 14:12)
PrideDownfall
“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men?”
The Bible (Galatians 1:10)
ApprovalIntegrity
“He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 1:31)
HumilityFaith
“Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”
The Bible (Philippians 2:3)
HumilityRespect
“Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 12:8)
VanityPerspective
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
The Bible (Mark 8:36)
PrioritiesSoul