What Is Fame Quotes

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.

I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.

I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

I had it all and blew it.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Believe it or not, fame is not as glamorous as it seems. I think it is much harder now with all of the media outlets, and people can be pretty nasty and harsh.

Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it.

Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.

Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

Nothing can be good if you do it for money or for fame.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.