Best 1177 quotes in «fame quotes» category

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.

Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

Fame attracts lunatics.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.

Fame is like a tree. It helps you get pussy.

Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. It's like, "I gotta get across the street, man! I gotta be there! I gotta be there!" Then you get across the street and you're like, "Yeah I'm here!" And then, that's it. Fame doesn't make you particularly happy.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

Fame is a form of misunderstanding.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.