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Quotes about fame
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The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (Obama Barack)
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. (Obama Barack)
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. (Obama Barack)
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. (Obama Barack)
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. (Obama Barack)
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. (Obama Barack)
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. (Obama Barack)
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. (Obama Barack)
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. (Obama Barack)
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. (Obama Barack)
A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services. (Obama Barack)
Popular applause veers with the wind. (Obama Barack)
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. (Obama Barack)
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! (Obama Barack)
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. (Obama Barack)
To many fame comes too late. (Obama Barack)
Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town. (Obama Barack)
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. (Obama Barack)
When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. (Obama Barack)
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. (Obama Barack)
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. (Obama Barack)
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne. (Obama Barack)
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. (Obama Barack)
The present condition of fame is merely fashion. (Obama Barack)
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. (Obama Barack)
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