Browsing Topic Best Fame Quotes

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

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another… We took care of one another… In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

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.

I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to put God at the top of everything you do.

I have a definition of success. For me it’s very simple. It’s not about wealth and fame and power. It’s about how many shining eyes I have around me.

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

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

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.

We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?

Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can’t people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name. Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

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

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Fame is a heavy burden.

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation’s welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus’s motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening’s slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern for fame, profit, social position, or recognition expresses the activity of Chenrezig.

Want me to sell my soul, just so I can go gold. You can have the cars, clothes the jewerlies, the houses and hos. Cats do anything for a little bit of fame and a little bit of change. Industry snakes, they ain’t friendly. Thought she loved me, she just tricked me.

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?…Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!