What Is Fame Quotes

Poet's food is love and fame.

Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.

Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.

Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.

Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for the sake of my soul

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.

I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

I don't know. I'd like to think that I haven't changed that much. Within myself I don't think I've changed.

Honestly, I didn't think that I would be recognized so easily.

When this is over, the media will lose interest [in the relationship]. There’ll be nothing to say. It won’t fit into a headline anymore. It won’t fit into a template.

Everyone just screams and screams and screams. I have accepted it as real now, but it still feels surreal.

If I had known that this movie would bring so much craziness, I don't know if I would have said 'yes' to the Twilight Saga. I never asked to be a poster-boy.

I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work.

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.

All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.