Fame Quotes
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
Thomas Hood
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You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.
Morgan Brittany
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As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies of the people if he proposes algebraic problems, and still more if he solves them.
Brahmagupta
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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.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Too much to know is to know naught but fame.
William Shakespeare
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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
Emily Dickinson
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It stirs up envy, fame does.
Marilyn Monroe
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I’m very excited and honored to be elected to the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.
Hal Blaine
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G-Dragonhe is very romantic. I’m his roommate so I see everything. He’s seriously romantic. If he dates someone he makes a song for them. One time he asked me how the song was. And I said oh my god if this was released in Korea there’d be a huge deal and it would make so much money. But… since it’s for the woman he loves it’s only for her and gives up that money/fame from that song.
Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
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You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
Erica Jong
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Cato the Elder
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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.
Jonathan Kellerman
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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
William Faulkner
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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
William Shakespeare
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
William Whitehead
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
Sallust
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Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.
Erica Jong
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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
Boyd K. Packer
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I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
Julia Roberts
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
William Hazlitt
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I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
Richard Lewis
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Modeling's actually been treating me a lot better at age 24 than when I was 21. Young girls get their hopes up and have fifteen minutes of fame; it's really sad, because there are very few models who last anymore.
Alexandra Richards
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Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
George Eliot