Best 1177 quotes in «fame quotes» category

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

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

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.

Poet's food is love and fame.

Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

So many people have tried to get happiness and serenity from outside things; it's pretty much common knowledge that is a road to nowhere. I've never heard anybody say, 'Fame made me the complete person I am.' Well, I'm sure people have said it, but nobody I respect.

Some people can handle fame, some can't.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it.

Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

Success. Money. Fame. Whatever you're going after. You have one kick at the can, I always say. It's very rare that you have many kicks at the can. You're there at the right place at the right time, you have your shot, and it either works or it doesn't. And I've had many shots.

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

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.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

That's what fame is: solitude.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day. Of course, the price tag is definitely part of it, but it's not the whole thing in my book.