16 Popular Fame Quotes And Sayings
1. Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be
careful.
- John Wooden
2. I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame.
- Jarod Kintz
3. Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people - that is worth something.
- Ouida
4. Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
- Horace Greeley
5. A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
- Clive James
6. Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.
- Scott Hamilton
7. Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
- Charlie Sheen
8. Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
- Martin Luther King
9. Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
- Francis Bacon
10. To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
- Emil Cioran
11. Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
- W.H Auden
12. Even best things are not equal to their fame.
- Henry David Thoreau
13. All the fame you should look for in life is to have live it quietly.
- Michel Eyquem
14. If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
- Oprah Winfrey
15. Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
- Benjamin DeCasseres
16. He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
- Chuang-tzu
