Fame Quotes

2089 Fame quotes by 1424 unique authors

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy. — Jonathan Sacks
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion. To feel confusion needs great… — Rajneesh
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears… — Mark Twain
There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame - manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does. — Orison Swett Marden
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who… — Joshua Chamberlain
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame. — Alexander the Great
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame. — Robert Mapplethorpe
The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man… — Samuel Johnson
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect… — Samuel Johnson
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. — Dionne Warwick
How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred;… — Sri Chinmoy
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from… — Molly Ringwald
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell. — Robert M. Pirsig
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise. — Tacitus
It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you… — Marilyn Monroe
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness… — George Washington Carver
Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted. — Albert Einstein

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