Quotes about Fame

I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I have to pay to be the most famous man on earth and I do it with pleasure only for God. My fight is only and introduction to the real fight, the one for God. Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.

Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

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!

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years? (asked Mr Ramsay ironically, staring at the hedge). What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls

So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.

They will extol the fame of Your abundant goodness and sing joyfully of Your righteousness.

Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.