Best 1177 quotes in «fame quotes» category

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.

Of course, I came up around music and fame, but this is still my first time experiencing it all. I'm still going through it like anybody else goes through it. But I'm still doing something I've never done before.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame - maybe one major and 40 wins. I'm not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins.

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

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

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

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.

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

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

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

Poet's food is love and fame.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

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.'

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

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

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.