Fame Quotes

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. (Oprah Winfrey)
In the future everyone will have their fifteen minutes of fame. View quote
Andy Warhol
Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac. View quote
Graham Greene
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority - that of time. View quote
William Hazlitt
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. View quote
George Santayana
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Fame is a bee It has a song- It has a sting- Ah, too, it has a wing. (Emily Dickinson)
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. View quote
Erma Bombeck
I don't need the fame. I don't need the money. I don't need the sex. This is something that I do because I have to do it. View quote
Jared Leto
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. View quote
Edward Young
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful. View quote
John Wooden
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. View quote
Lord Byron
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well. View quote
Oliver Herford
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. View quote
Milan Kundera
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. View quote
Dante Alighieri
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. (James Thurber)
The temple of fame stands upon the grave the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men. View quote
William Hazlitt
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes. View quote
William Hazlitt
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. View quote
Marlo Thomas