Fame Quotes

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. All this stuff is temporary. Money, fame, successtemporary. Even life is temporary. Jesusthat's eternal.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Fame is temporary, make it longterm by putting smiles on people's hearts and helping others by expecting nothing in return. Be famous and unforgettable for your Unconditional Love.

What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

I don't see the world as you see it. I see it as a game, and my aim is to complete it. What you live for is what you die for: To make a little name, grab some fame and the high score.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!

How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

My fame? Truly I don't consider myself famous...long way to go yet. But if anyone does ask for an autograph it's a wonderful feeling.

Invisibility is the only thing that fame cost me. I used to be able to go places and blend in. Anonymity is something you lose on this side of things.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

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.

I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

You will be tested as a leader....You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune.

I, personally, liked the legend.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.