I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily Dickinson

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.
Lady Gaga

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
Aeschylus

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
Leonardo DiCaprio

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William Tecumseh Sherman

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
Tiger Woods

Fame is the thirst of youth.
Lord Byron

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

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Lord Byron