(675 quotes found)
“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.”
Johnny Depp
“The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.”
Dorothy Parker
“A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.”
Denis Waitley
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly [that I want] to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.”
Drew Barrymore
“Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.”
Erma Bombeck
“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.”
Emily Dickinson
“Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink”
John Keats
