Some quotes on fame
Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal.
~Don Williams, Jr
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
~Chuang-tzu
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
~Lord Byron
If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
~J. K. Rowling.This is from one of the Harry Potter series
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
A niche in the temple of Fame.
~Author Unknown
I’m not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.
~Shania Twain
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.
~Thomas Carlyle
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
~Horace Greeley
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
~Sir John Denham
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
~George Santayana
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
~Henry David Thoreau
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
~Thomas Carlyle
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
~Erma Bombeck