Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. Votes: 4
John WoodenFame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. Votes: 3
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that. Votes: 3
J. K. RowlingFame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. Votes: 3
Mark TwainFame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauGreat Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. Votes: 3
Thomas SewardIn the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. Votes: 3
Umberto EcoFame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God. Votes: 3
Leonardo da VinciFame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. Votes: 3
William Davenant'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! Votes: 3
Ezra PoundFame " the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. Votes: 3
Rainer Maria RilkeFame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet. Votes: 3
Billy ConnollyFame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for! Votes: 3
Steven PressfieldI thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me. Votes: 3
Earle CombsFame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot. Votes: 3
George LazenbyFame hurt. People thought I was a sellout chef and stopped coming to my restaurant. Votes: 3
Chris CosentinoFame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps. Votes: 3
Joseph Gordon-LevittFame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. Votes: 3
Vicki BaumFame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young. Votes: 3
Josh HartnettFame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient. Votes: 3
Louisa May AlcottFame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. Votes: 3
Gabriel Garcia MarquezI don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be. Votes: 3
George SteinbrennerMy career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. Votes: 3
Leonardo DiCaprioFame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. Votes: 3
Anne Morrow LindberghWhen I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career - the Hall of Fame. Votes: 3
Justin VerlanderIf you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible. Votes: 3
Rickey HendersonFame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. Votes: 3
Christian Nestell BoveeTalent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful. Votes: 2
Harvey MackayFame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Votes: 2
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWith fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon. Votes: 2
Albert EinsteinThe woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. Votes: 2
Amelia EarhartYou can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you. Votes: 2
J. ColeFame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Votes: 2
Francis BaconA legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. Votes: 2
Miles DavisWe all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free. Votes: 2
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. Votes: 2
Emily DickinsonFame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. Votes: 2
Marilyn MonroePau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame. Votes: 2
Phil JacksonWakati mwingine tukitaka kutambulika hatuna budi kuweka mbele aibu ya heshima yetu. Votes: 1
Enock MaregesiFor an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth. Votes: 1
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTo put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate. Votes: 1
Mokokoma MokhonoanaAccept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes. Votes: 1
Jaachynma N.E. AguChoices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well. Votes: 1
Jaachynma N.E. AguWhen the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame. Votes: 1
Friedrich NietzscheShun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time! Votes: 1
Jaachynma N.E. AguAnother way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence. Votes: 1
Jaachynma N.E. AguDon`t turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress. Votes: 1
Jaachynma N.E. AguWhen the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame. Votes: 1
Friedrich NietzscheIntegrity of life is fame's best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. Votes: 1
John WebsterAll she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished. Votes: 1
Anthony LiccioneA wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand. Votes: 1
Michael Bassey JohnsonTo be the cynosure of all eyes, do the extraordinary when you are least expected. Votes: 1
Ogwo David EmenikeLove of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from Votes: 1
Publius Cornelius TacitusNot everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. Votes: 1
Martin Luther King Jr.Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name. Votes: 1
Vladimir NabokovFamous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page. Votes: 1
J. K. RowlingI shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully. Votes: 1
Thomas MaloryIf you don't want to be average, don't rush into doing what the crowd is doing Votes: 1
Constance Chuks FridayA kind of losing loadum is their game,Where the worst writer has the greatest fame. Votes: 1
John WilmotYou have been called to a life of blessing, don`t descend to that of curses. Votes: 1
Jaachynma N.E. AguShout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream. Votes: 1
Jaachynma N.E. AguIt's not the game, Zee. It's the fame. Everyone wants to be affiliated with a winner. Votes: 1
Shannon M. ParkerPeople can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs. Votes: 1
Dennis PragerMoney isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style. Votes: 1
Shannon L. AlderDon't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money. Votes: 1
Thomas C. FosterA celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow. Votes: 1
Mokokoma MokhonoanaFame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known. Votes: 1
Criss JamiFame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back. Votes: 1
Dean CavanaghIn this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete. Votes: 1
CherIn the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted Votes: 1
Robert GalbraithDreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price. Votes: 1
Criss JamiThe life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. Votes: 1
Marcus Tullius CiceroFirst find your crown and then wear it, then your crowd will come towards you with ovations Votes: 1
Constance Chuks FridayA person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one. Votes: 1
Frank D. GilroyNever throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. Votes: 1
Theodore RooseveltFame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel! Votes: 1
Mehmet Murat ildanSpurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises. Votes: 1
Rabindranath TagoreFame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. Votes: 1
Rainer Maria RilkeIt is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism Votes: 1
M.F. MoonzajerHow can I have my 15 minutes of fame when open mics only allow you to perform for 10 minutes. Votes: 1
R.K. CowlesThis is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive. Votes: 1
Criss JamiI may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire. Votes: 1
Roy OrbisonThe charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. Votes: 1
Blaise PascalWealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Votes: 1
Arthur SchopenhauerGod takes us through life`s journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus. Votes: 1
Jaachynma N.E. AguThere is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest. Votes: 1
Jaachynma N.E. AguFame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold. Votes: 1
Vanna BontaFame is not the glory virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold Votes: 1
Vanna BontaThe fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellNone despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.
Jean Antoine Petit-SennThe ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.
Alfredo Di StefanoThe graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.
Franz GrillparzerLet the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
Rabindranath TagoreThe book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.
Johann Gaudenz von Salis-SeewisWho builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
Alexander PopeNothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Baltasar GracianWhen it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.
Clemence PoesyFame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Henry David ThoreauIn the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]
Pierre CorneilleFall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
William ShakespeareIt's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes
David CassidyWe have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
Samuel JohnsonFame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
Alexander SmithWhat's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Alexander PopeIf this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care
Brigitte BardotMen the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
Charles ChurchillWith fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
Cyndi LauperKnow the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
Erma BombeckFame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.
Joaquin MillerCelebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.
Mal FletcherI didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
Sheryl CrowYou can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.
Steven SeagalWinning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun"
Suzanne CollinsDeath makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
William ShakespeareIf you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.
Abdul KalamNor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
Alexander PopeBetter than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonVast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!
Friedrich SchillerNeither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean-Baptiste Henri LacordaireMaintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
John DrydenFame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
John DrydenFor me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.
Lupe FiascoArtists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
Marina AbramovicThere's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully.
Spencer PrattIn every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
William ShenstoneFame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
Anna Brownell JamesonThat's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
Jeff BridgesHow come it rains every Hall of Fame weekend? They need to move it to a different weekend.
Yogi BerraIt is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
Orison Swett MardenI do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman.
Shirley Geok-lin LimI would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.
Alanis MorissetteI believe at the end of my career I'll be retired into the recurring character hall of fame.
Andy KindlerIf I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
Benedict CumberbatchThe charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise PascalWhat rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
John WolcotSo all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
Richard O'BrienIt's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
Aretha FranklinWhen money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
Bradford CoxI'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.
Phil RizzutoGreece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
William CowperI love getting into restaurants and getting free stuff - that part of fame I definitely enjoy!
Andy CohenThat sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.
George EliotVerse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
John DonneI don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life.
Leighton MeesterFame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do
Madonna CicconeThe regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame
Walt FrazierWhate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
Alexander PopeYet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
Alfred Lord TennysonMen should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
Edward YoungFill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
Frank Moore ColbyA good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
Georg C. LichtenbergThe virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.
George Granville, 1st Baron LansdowneWisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
PlutarchI have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.
Bob DylanHe (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.
Gene MauchLive without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.
OvidThere's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.
Terry BozzioIn thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
William ShakespeareFortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
Bob DylanNo true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Charles SumnerEverything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything
Elizabeth TaylorIt is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.
Henry David ThoreauArtists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
Ludwig van BeethovenWhen I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.
Chris PineAll the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
Dolly PartonI'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.
Eric DickersonOnce you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
Famke JanssenFor everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
HoraceA businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
John Kenneth GalbraithThere is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance!
Mehmet Murat ildanTill the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!
Percy Bysshe Shelley