Top 101 Fame Quotes That You Should Know

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For some people all they care about is becoming famous. However, it is important to not let fame get to your head. With that in mind, check out the top 101 fame quotes.

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#101 – 90. Fame Quotes

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

100. 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

99. Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. – Doris Lessing

98. Fame or perceived success – it all comes from groupthink. – Chance The Rapper

97. Popular applause veers with the wind. – John Bright

96. Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. – David Bowie

95. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin

94. A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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

92. 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

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

90. A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. – Steve Martin

#89 – 80. Fame Quotes

89. It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. – Lillian Hellman

88. 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

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

86. Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. – Alan Bennett

85. Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, / What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name? – Milton

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

83. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. – Milton

82. One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish. – Bill O’Reilly

81. A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. – Fred Allen

80. Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. – Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

#79 – 70. Fame Quotes

79. In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes – Warhol

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

77. A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that’s frightful behaviour. – Shirley Manson

76. 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

75. Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it. – Alanis Morissette

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

73. In general, when you have success on the field, you’re more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you’re in the public eye more, and you’ve got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you’re doing out in public and make sure you’re smart about the things you say. – Aaron Rodgers

72. He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. – William Blake

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

70. Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they’re just famous. – John Carroll Lynch

#69 – 60. Fame Quotes

69. A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to be well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. – Fred Allen

68. Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp’d an immortality. – Shakespeare

67. 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

66. Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl’s complexion. – Truman Capote

65. Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water. – Chinese Proverb

64. Sometimes the pinnacle of fame and the height of folly are twin peaks. – Evan Esar

63. Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

62. 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. – Arnold

61. Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed. – Alexander Pope

60. Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. – Frank Herbert

#59 – 50. Fame Quotes

59. How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. – Alexander The Great

58. Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. – Francis Bacon

57. My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

56. The best fame is a writer’s fame. It’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. – Fran Lebowitz

55. I love being famous…It’s almost like being white! – Chris Rock

54. It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. – Alan Alda

53. 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! – Holmes

52. Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can’t just say, ‘hi’. You say hi and people whisper’ man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude. – Juliette Lewis

51. People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love. – Claire Danes

50. If you’re lucky enough to be famous, then it’s great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter. – Michael Schumacher

#49 – 40. Fame Quotes

49. Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame –to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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

47. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known. – Confucius

46. Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. – W. H. Auden

45. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. – Thoreau

44. There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. – Joseph Addison

43. It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. – Einstein

42. You’re not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi. – Humphrey Bogart

41. Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I’ve experienced them both. – Monroe

40. Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes. – Shakespeare

#39 – 30. Fame Quotes

39. The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. – William James

38. I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. – David Bowie

37. I awoke one morning and found myself famous. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

36. Fame is the thirst of youth. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

35. You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. – Thomas Wolfe

34. 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

33. With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up. – Monroe

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

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

30. With fame, you can’t trust everybody. You can’t depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got and what you can bring to their life. It’s not a relationship-it’s a leech. – Chris Brown

#29 – 20. Fame Quotes

29. I’ve always been famous, it’s just no one knew it yet. – Lady Gaga

28. There’s a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it’s everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it’s shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting. – George Clooney

27. The highest form of vanity is love of fame. – George Santayana

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

25. You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you. – J. Cole

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

23. I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn’t cover most of it. – Bill Murray

22. In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective stories. – Heywood Hale Broun

21. A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all. – Clive James

20. There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. – Jean De La Bruyere

#19 – 10. Fame Quotes

19. Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, Fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. – Monroe

18. 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

17. Fame is like a big piece of meringue – it’s beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn’t really fill you up. – Pierce Brosnan

16. If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it’s good to be married to someone who’s not impressed with that at all. – Ray Romano

15. What’s fame? a fancy’d life in other’s breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. – Alexander Pope

14. Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well. – Ashley Olsen

13. All is ephemeral, – fame and the famous as well – Aurelius

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

11. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man. – Thomas Carlyle

10. Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. – Mary MacLane