Fame Quotes
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By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.
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I don't live for glamor and I don't care for fame, I'm in it for the love of the game.
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Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd.
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Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.
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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
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Perhaps he needs the money. Some of the men live too richly for their purses, if you understand me. Fame would allow him large debts, but everything has to be paid back in the end.
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Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern for fame, profit, social position, or recognition expresses the activity of Chenrezig.
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The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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I say, without characters, fame lives long.
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A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
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Some people can handle fame, some can't.
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
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I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
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Whoever has recognized the vainglory of individuality will not attach any store ("n'attachera aucun prix à", Fr.) to fame. The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.
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What I really wanted wasn't fame. All I wanted was to know whether or not I should've been been born.
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A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.
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No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.
