Fame Quotes

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.

~ Elizabeth Hernandez

I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags of fame and fortune behind and go where the soul beckons without fearing the decisive outcome. I will travel in a world without boundaries and embrace danger and awe. I will stand as a witness to comedy, beauty, and tragedy and apply the principles of artistic and ascetic forms of awareness to overcome the inherent frustration of enduring a fundamentally painful human existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Looking back, I have come to realize that the gang lifestyle back then—the fame, the respect, and the recognition—was stronger and powerful than any drug. We were serious with what we were dealing with. It was like a do or die situation. Shelton ‘Apples’ Burrows reform gang leader

~ Drexel Deal

It's not the number of contacts you cultivate but the diversity and depth of connections that leverage your opportunity to use best talents more often to accomplish more.

~ Kare Anderson

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

~ Aristotle

Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Too many film schools, as well as any number of screenwriting gurus and an obscene number of how-to-write tomes, have made a business of catering to fledgling screenwriters and filmmakers by exploiting their belief that the only thing standing between them and an Oscar is the right kind of knowledge. If only one knew enough, one could easily become rich and famous. Unfortunately, almost all are susceptible to that eternal malady – “that last great infirmity of the soul” – which is FAME. And whilst I don’t deny the value of technical knowledge, such knowledge matters very little if the story one is trying to tell doesn’t matter, either because it’s incoherent or simply because it fails to make us care.

~ Billy Marshall Stoneking

... A man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very well go on improving them to the best of his ability without deciding on his own precise niche in the temple of Fame... [Man] did not create themselves... their talents were given them, and they might as well be proud of the colour of their hair.

~ C.s. Lewis

A person whom works exclusively for money places a price tag on his or her soul. A person whom labors to attain fame seeks a false form of adulation. The writer ignores the lure of a glamorous life by seeking to penetrate the darkness of their own being and meditate the larger issues that frame existence. A seeker knowingly follows a path that is barren, bleak, desolate, and unproductive in terms of attaining recognition and exulted social and financial status.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Real men do not work for fame. That is what I think. Popularity is just a piece of crap. I prefer a private life.

~ Aishah Madadiy

In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.

~ Erica Jong

If I had time, I would become timeless.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

I reached into the pile and pulled out a few connected chips and then was about to shove them into my mouth, when I saw what appeared to be the face of an angel sitting next to me. And, if it was in fact my actual guardian angel, then it probably would have been poor form not to offer a few chips to extend an olive branch.

~ Phil Wohl

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

~ Frida Kahlo

Richness and fat does need,In logic clever fine deeds,But paunches never do breed,Fine thoughts or sublime seeds.[45] - 2

~ Munindra Misra

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.

~ Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

A well paid word deceives them. And what kind of a word is a word that has a price, high or low, which is adjusted to the price of fame, and how, long ago, when it was little appreciated, was it more valuable than it is today with a big price?

~ Dejan Stojanovic

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

~ Bono

You can't succeed in any endeavor if your motive is solely selfish- feeding your ego, seeking recognition, fame, etc. Find a lasting motivation...

~ Assegid Habtewold

Trying to become something in a world where everyone wants to become something is a thing that needs God's programming.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Our lives are marked by the people who choose to matter more: the teacher who encouraged our curiosity, the neighbor who lent a helping hand in time of need, the great leaders and perceptive thinkers whose vision and innovation improve the quality of our lives. And that's what it means to matter more. It's not about pursuit of riches or fame. It's about making a difference in people's lives. Remembered or not, lived out in a small town or on the world stage, the journey of relevance matters.

~ Marian Deegan

If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.

~ Lady Gaga

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

So when people see me walking on the street, they feel like we're old pals. Women pull my cheeks and men clap me on the shoulder; I'm like a petting zoo. But movie stars, on the other hand, are much more untouchable. Those are people that you watch from afar. They're regal lions. I'm a friendly goat.

~ Kunal Nayyar

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

~ Mindy Kaling

Not fame, but wisdom is the beauty of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

Sarcasm is the new staircase to stardom.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

You really want my honest opinion?” I ask. Anton gestures for me to go on. “Please, this is why I hired you, devochka.” I detect a little hint of sarcasm, but I go ahead and say, “I hate restaurants like this.” “Why?” He seems genuinely curious to know why. “Because—because they’re expensive.” “What is the problem? I’m paying for everything.” I shake my head. “It’s not that—you see,” I lower my voice, “ this is where famous people eat.” “Famous?” Anton pretends to look around. “Where?” “I think that’s the guy from that prank show. And there’s that guy from those vampire movies. And Maya Findlay.” “Yeah? I don’t know who they are.” “Really?” I ask dubiously. “I’m not into the famous people thing too.” “Really.” “Yes.” “Which is why you only date models who want to become actresses.” I notice him giving me a look. “Sorry,” I say sheepishly.

~ Maria Malonzo

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

~ Richard Peck

Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw, entitled. These kids needed to believe that they themselves were only one daring, controversial act away from being up on that screen themselves.

~ Melissa Jo Peltier

A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to Pierrot

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity.

~ F.r. Tallis

Author says he suffered from both a craving to be famous and a horror of being known to like being known.

~ T.e. Lawrence

People think entrepreneurs are all about fame and money. I was never in for either. And, will never be. This is a much bigger fight.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar