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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
#9 – 1. Fame Quotes
9. Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. – Shakespeare
8. I’ve always been famous. It’s just no one knew it yet. – Lady Gaga
7. Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent. – Shakespeare
6. Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase. – Noel Gallagher
5. Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. – Erma Louise Bombeck
4. The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. – St. Augustine
3. Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. – Edmund Burke
2. The present condition of fame is merely fashion. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
1. Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon
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