Fame Quotes

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Francis Bacon

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Blaise Pascal

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds

Socrates

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

Chuang-tzu

Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Horace Greeley

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.

Emily Dickinson

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Henry David Thoreau

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Francis Bacon

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light

Sallust

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

Kanye West

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Oprah Winfrey

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Lord Byron

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

Tacitus

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

George Santayana

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Vicki Baum

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.

Vanna Bonta

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.

Marilyn Monroe

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