Fame Quotes - page 18

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. (Jean de La Bruyère)
Go where glory waits thee, But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me! View quote
Thomas Moore
Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame, Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee; Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history: If thou praise not, all other praise is shame. View quote
Philip Sidney
It is only due to a lack of heart for the Way and a lack of skill in handling their daily conduct that people become vainly tied to fame and gain. View quote
Dōgen
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. View quote
Douglas Coupland
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Andy Warhol made fame more famous. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy. View quote
Ted Nugent
A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse. View quote
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
The world would be a happier place than it is if acquisitiveness were always stronger than rivalry. But in fact, a great many men will cheerfully face impoverishment if they can thereby secure complete ruin for their rivals. Hence the present level of taxation. Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Anyone who has much to do with children knows how they are constantly performing some antic, and saying "Look at me." "Look at me" is one of the most fundamental desires of the human heart. It can take innumerable forms, from buffoonery to the pursuit of posthumous fame. (Bertrand Russell)
The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Success doesn't change you; fame does. View quote
Whitney Houston
No American has carried greater fame out of the White House than this silent man who leaves it today. View quote
James A. Garfield
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. Being able to sit at home in the parsonage and your books would be very famous and occasionally you would correspond with the Prince of Wales's secretary. You know I didn't think they'd rake through my bins, I didn't expect to be photographed on the beach through long lenses. I never dreamt it would impact my daughter's life negatively, which at times it has. View quote
J. K. Rowling
It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence. View quote
Clay Aiken
And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are! View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came. View quote
A. E. Housman
Fame is morally neutral. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame... and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. View quote
Henry Knox
(Continued) The ironic thing is that my original goal in life was to be in a famous band, tour the world and sell millions of albums. Although that didn't quite happen, I got something else just as gratifying. Instead of being in a famous band, I gained some fame in the industry as a game composer. Instead of touring the world, I receive fan mail from around the world. Instead of selling millions of albums, my music is on millions of games! And I sell enough of my own albums that allows me to keep releasing them. So in a different way, I kind of got what I wanted after all. And I'm more than happy with that. The most fulfilling part of it is that I feel I contributed something that mattered to a significant number of people, and more importantly, I got to be a part of projects that mattered a lot to my life personally, like Star Wars! (Frank Klepacki)
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.