Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

In his lifetime Lincoln was maligned and traduced, but detraction during a man's lifetime affords no test of his life's value nor offers any forecast of history's verdict. It would almost seem as if the glory of immortality were anticipated in the life of the great by detraction and denial whilst they yet lived.

Great men have this in common with the Divinity that they never die entirely. Their spirit survives them.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

I'd like to be remembered as the greatest ever.

The more records you put up, the longer they talk about you.

I want to take care of my family for generations. I want to have my head turned into a bust in the Hall of Fame.

I don't want to be the next hottest thing, I want longevity.

I want my name to be remembered for 1,000 years. That way, I will never be forgotten when I'm done inside the ring.

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.