Quotes about Fame
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
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
- John Donne
Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.
- TobyMac
The love of fame is almost 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.
- William Hazlitt
I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute.
- Charles Stanley