Quotes on Fame

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.”

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.”

Dejan Stojanovic

“€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.”

Slavoj Žižek

“The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.”

Fannie Flagg

“What needs my for his honoured bones,The labor of an age in pilèd stones,Or that his hallowed relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”

John Milton

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

George Bernard Shaw

When our signature changes to autograph, this marks the success.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I’m the most unprepared person in the world to be famous.

Drew Carey

Let us make Jesus famous for all the right reasons.

Aimee Semple McPherson

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Aisha Tyler

I never wanted to be famous. I wanted to be notorious.

George Bernard Shaw