Quotes about Fame
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
— Laurence Sterne
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
— Cicero
No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.
— Nelson Rockefeller
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
— Virginia Woolf
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
— William Hazlitt
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
— Vance Havner
Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
— John Milton
I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!
— Babe Ruth
I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.
— Joel Osteen
I'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.
— Bill Goldberg