Top 100 Name Fame Quotes
#1. Writing is the food for my soul; not a medium to earn name & fame.
Mallika Tripathi
#2. If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
Sivananda
#3. To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.
Mary C. Ames
#4. And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name.
Seneca.
#5. I don't see the world as you see it.
I see it as a game, and my aim is to complete it.
What you live for is what you die for:
To make a little name, grab some fame and the high score.
MURS
#6. Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.
Jonathan Swift
#7. The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#8. The world of light and starry grace;
within your mind I live to trace.
Your thought's speed in thunder's glory,
lightening my being with dream's story.
I embrace the tree carrying your name
Your unspoken wish : the heart of fame.
Munia Khan
#9. We cannot impress our children with the fame of God's name if we are not impressed with him ourselves. If
Tedd Tripp
#10. I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.
John Gay
#11. Just be happy, not because of name and fame, but because you are alive.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#13. Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family's fame.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#14. The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.
Banksy
#15. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.
Emma Lazarus
#16. Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante Alighieri
#17. If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
John Piper
#18. The actor's realm is that of the fleeting. Of all kinds of fame, it is known, his is the most ephemeral. At least, this is said in conversation. But all kinds of fame are ephemeral. From the point of view of Sirius, Goethe's works in ten thousand years will be dust and his name forgotten.
Albert Camus
#19. And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name
Kanye West
#20. Yeah, do it for your people
Do it for your pride
How are you ever gonna know if you never even try?
Do it for your country
Do it for your name
The Script
#21. They actually succeed in spelling his name right in the newspapers. That in itself is fame, on the continent.
Oscar Wilde
#22. Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!
Swami Vivekananda
#23. I've never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It's all about where you breathe. That's my claim to fame.
Nicola Sturgeon
#24. There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#25. In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
William Shakespeare
#26. Being famous is not all that one should want in life ... there is much more to life than name and fame ...
Amit Abraham
#27. Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt
#28. What is Fortune, what is Fame?
Futile gold and phantom name-
Riches buried in a cave,
Glory written on a grave.
Henry Van Dyke
#29. Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.
Joni Mitchell
#30. If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#31. Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#32. Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
Karl Lagerfeld
#33. You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
Sunday Adelaja
#34. Making a name for yourself comes from working hard
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Censure no more shall brand my humble name
The child of passion and the fool of fame
George Gordon Byron
#36. I won a noble fame;
But with a sudden frown,
The people snatched my crown,
And, in the mire, trod down
My lofty name.
Theodore Tilton
#37. Proclaim aloud the Saviour's fame, Who bears the Breaker's wond'rous name; Sweet name; and it becomes him well, Who breaks down earth, sin, death, and hell.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#38. Nor bring, to see me cease to live,
Some doctor full of phrase and fame,
To shake his sapient head, and give
The ill he cannot cure a name.
Matthew Arnold
#39. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desires for name and fame.
Swami Vivekananda
#40. O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
William Shakespeare
#41. I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
George Bernard Shaw
#42. And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.
Tom Felton
#43. 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.
William Hazlitt
#45. Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#46. Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.
Don Yaeger
#47. 2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.
Halle Berry
#48. When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.
Billy Childish
#49. The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#50. True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#51. Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#52. A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?
Luanne Rice
#53. Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.
Vladimir Nabokov
#54. Fame - the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#55. Some travelers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new exploit.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. When first the college rolls receive his name,
The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame;
Through all his veins the fever of renown
Burns from the strong contagion of the gown
Samuel Johnson
#57. I made my name". What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development
Sunday Adelaja
#58. Too much to know is to know nought but fame;
And every godfather can give a name.
William Shakespeare
#59. Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#60. Making name for yourself requires you not to stop and consider you have done enough but rather continue to move forward
Sunday Adelaja
#61. I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily Dickinson
#62. Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name ... Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#63. But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
Homer
#64. Standing in The Hall of Fame
And the world's going to know your name
Yeah
-The Hall of Fame
The Script
#65. Maccarinelli thinks he can use me to make a name for himself, but that is not going to happen. He has made his fame by fighting nobodies. I've fought all the way to the top against top contenders.
David Haye
#66. Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#67. Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name.
Tupac Shakur
#68. He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?'
'No, I have not.'
'Well, well, such is fame!
Arthur Conan Doyle
#69. If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.
Francis Quarles
#70. Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night ...
What of fame?
Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name
And never again, are you alone..
Tupac Shakur
#71. What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Desiderius Erasmus
#72. Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
John Denham
#73. Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie.
Thomas Huxley
#74. A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.
Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff
#75. Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name
Gregory Benford
#76. Immortal honour, endless fame, Attend the Almighty Father's name: The Saviour Son be glorified, Who for lost man's redemption died; And equal adoration be, Eternal Paraclete, to Thee. Amen. - RABANUS MAURUS (9TH C.); TRANSLATED BY JOHN DRYDEN (1631
David P. Gushee
#77. What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.
Tupac Shakur
#78. I know the game, it's old and lame:
You're holdin' a flame for my name and my fame.
Livin' like Givens schemin' on Tyson,
But she got lucky 'cause he was a nice one.
But I ain't nice and I don't play that,
If it ain't tax, I don't pay that.
Kool Moe Dee
#79. You make a name for yourself when you take on responsibilities and constantly solve problems
Sunday Adelaja
#80. As if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do.
Angela Carter
#81. The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame
Walt Frazier
#82. Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live? Can you take what you need, but take less than you give? Could you close every day, without the glory and fame? Could you hold your head high, when no-one knows your name?
Bryan Adams
#83. I've reached the end of this great history
And all the land will fill with talk of me
I shall not die, these seeds I've sown will save
My name and reputation from the grave,
And men of sense and wisdom will proclaim,
When I have gone, my praises and my fame.
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
#84. At the heart of it all, Passion exists to see a generation stake their lives on what matters most. For us, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to fully leverage our lives by amplifying His name in everything we do.
Louie Giglio
#85. I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there 's a pair of us - don't tell!
They 'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson
#86. Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
William Cowper
#88. Some travellers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new exploit. It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame
Henry David Thoreau
#89. One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
Edward Young
#90. Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter Savage Landor
#91. And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?
Oliver Goldsmith
#92. Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
Alexander Pope
#93. When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper ... and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.
L.M. Montgomery
#94. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Paul Stanley
#95. The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.
Henry David Thoreau
#96. Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.
Henry Cuyler Bunner
#97. Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys,
There is but one a bad one;
The tenth is he, the parson's fee,
And indeed he is a sad one.
No love of fame, no sense of shame,
And a bad heart, let me tell ye:
Without, all brass; within, all ass,
And the puppy's name is Felly.
Horace Walpole
#98. Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.
Rumi
#99. I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William T. Sherman
#100. Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Friedrich Schiller
