Fame Quotes

2089 Fame quotes by 1424 unique authors

Leonardo is the most incredible actor, on the planet, with a couple of people alongside him. Getting to act with him is just [amazing]. I… — Carey Mulligan
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo. — Tacitus
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. — Horace
Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as… — Baltasar Gracian
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. — Tacitus
By worrying as little as possible about fame. — Diogenes
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. — Marcus Aurelius
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to… — Joseph Addison
renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the… — Ambrose Bierce
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work… — Samuel Johnson
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines… — Samuel Johnson
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. — Thomas Carlyle
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. — Pablo Picasso
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. — John Dryden
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. — William Cowper
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory. — Louisa May Alcott
Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble. — Fernando Pessoa
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A… — Emma Lazarus
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced… — Edmund Burke
Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. — Homer
I would like to be famous but unknown. — Edgar Degas
The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. — Dante Alighieri
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession… — Edward Gibbon

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