Top #100+ Best Fame Quotes

Fame Quotes

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. – Lucius Accius

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. – Fred Allen

“If I didn’t care for fun and such,

I’d probably amount to much.

But I shall stay the way I am,

Because I do not give a damn.” – Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

Fame is a fickle food / Upon a shifting plate. – Emily Dickinson

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault. – Henry Kissinger

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar’s laurel crown. – William Blake

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness. – Lupe Fiasco

“Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying” – Gerard Way

Fame is proof that the people are gullible. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn’t care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole. – Nicole Polizzi

Fame makes us forget who we really are. – Tony Calderone

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. – JEAN GENET, Prisoner of Love

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? – Chanakya

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon. – Albert Einstein

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. – Cicero

Life is a warfare and a stranger’s sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. – Marcus Aurelius

“I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.” – Jimi Hendrix

I’m not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy. – Ted Nugent

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don’t want heroes; what they want is to see you fall. – Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. – John Wooden

“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. – Sun Tzu

Well worn, fame plays second fiddle to modesty.- Leslie Edwards Humez

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. – Ray Charles.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks. – Eminem

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon

Fame Quotes

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, ‘OK, I’ve done it all,’ but for me, it was a new beginning. – Jimmy Cliff

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

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny. – Proverb

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! – Davy Crockett

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved. – W. Somerset Maugham

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear. – Jack Nicholson

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. – Matthew Henry

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. – Fred A. Allen

Acclaim is a distraction. – James Broughton

No matter how much fame you have, it’s not something that belongs to you. If I’m famous, that doesn’t belong to me ..that belongs to you. If you can’t remember who I am, I’m no longer famous. – MICHAEL J. FOX

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame. – Alexander the Great

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. – Cicero

There is no defense against criticism except obscurity. – Joseph Addison

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. – Benjamin Franklin

Fame Quotes

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.- Virgil

Fame is a constant effort. – Jules Renard

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services. – Daniel J. Boorstin

Well worn, fame plays second fiddle to modesty. – Leslie Edwards Humez

“I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.” – Jimi Hendrix

Now there is fame! Of all — hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public — fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true. – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish painter.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave. – CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign. – Publius Cornelius Tacitus

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It’s a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment. – Chuck D

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent. – William Shakespeare

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 TENNYSON, The Vision of Sin

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. – Van Morrison

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. Oprah Winfrey

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. – Vicki Baum

Even the best things are not equal to their fame. – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. – Sir Thomas Browne

Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim–

At last the transient glory of a splendid name,

And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust,

Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust. – ANDREW DOWNING, “Fame”

“I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There’s no stopping. I didn’t create the fame, the fame created me.” – Lady Gaga

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. – John Milton

I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. – Stephen Hawking

What’s fame? a fancy’d life in other’s breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. – Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet and satirist.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. – Susan Sontag (1933-2004) American author.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash. – Jack London

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. – Amelia Earhart

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon. – Voltaire

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. – Horace Greeley

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don’t know, and who don’t know us. – Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. – Blaise Pascal

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. – John Wooden

Fame is morally neutral. – Edward R. Murrow

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live. – Marilyn Monroe

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town. – Truman Capote

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. – Emily Dickinson

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. – Bodhidharma

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. – Socrates

I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir. – David Bowie

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. – Ovid

We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden. – Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire

Famous people don’t want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there’s something crawling in their clothes. – DON DELILLO, Underworld

Acquaintance lessens fame. – Claudius

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. – Benjamin Disraeli

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know. – H. L. Mencken

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks. – Eminem

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

I awoke one morning and found myself famous. – George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing. – J. Cole

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant. – David Bowie

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”