Fame Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great…

— William Hazlitt

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

— Marcus Aurelius

Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

— Mark Twain

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few…

— James Purdy

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all,…

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by…

— Patrick Dempsey

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

— Ouida

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

— Al Goldstein

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands,…

— Davy Crockett