Fame Quotes

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Walter Savage Landor

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

Oliver Goldsmith

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

William James

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

Robert Burns

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial

Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance dreams are cruses.

Kazi Shams

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Erma Bombeck

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Alexander Pope

When this world favors somebody, it lends him the attributes, and surpassing merits of others and when it turns its face away from him it snatches away even his own excellences and fame.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

And I think that my whole life, looking back at it, I was so rooted in worldly things, in worldly values, fame, fashion and fortune and all the things that are just transient.

Jani Allan

Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

Durante degli Alighieri

I did enjoy it," he says. "But it was very, very weird. You can blab on about seeing the other side of fame, but it doesn't mean shit until it happens to you. It wasn't so much the going on TV, or going to award ceremonies, or having a camera focused on your face. It was being famous in the supermarket, being famous in a restaurant. Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour. I wanted to turn the tap off when I'd done my job. But you can't.

Richard Paul Astley

Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Francis Bacon
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