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Quotes about fame

  • Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. (Obama Barack)
  • To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. (Obama Barack)
  • Acquaintance lessens fame. (Obama Barack)
  • Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. (Obama Barack)
  • I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known. (Obama Barack)
  • Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! (Obama Barack)
  • Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. (Obama Barack)
  • We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. (Obama Barack)
  • Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. (Obama Barack)
  • Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. (Obama Barack)
  • There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone. (Obama Barack)
  • Fame is proof that the people are gullible. (Obama Barack)
  • What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. (Obama Barack)
  • I was the only one there I never heard of. (Obama Barack)
  • There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. (Obama Barack)
  • If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. (Obama Barack)
  • Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. (Obama Barack)
  • What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. (Obama Barack)
  • Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. (Obama Barack)
  • If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. (Obama Barack)
  • There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes! (Obama Barack)
  • 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. (Obama Barack)
  • Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. (Obama Barack)
  • It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. (Obama Barack)
  • Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. (Obama Barack)
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