Quotes about Fame

You can't get rich thinking poor.

Hustle until your haters ask if you're hiring.

Everybody loves you until you become competition.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
- Confucius

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
- Martial

If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.
- Josh Homme

Fame is a form of misunderstanding.
- Madonna

No matter how much fame you have, it’s not something that belongs to you. If I’m famous, that doesn’t belong to me – – that belongs to you. If you can’t remember who I am, I’m no longer famous.
- Michael J. Fox

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
- Mary MacLane

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

Fame is an illusive thing / here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.
- Henry Miller

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
- Andy Warhol

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
- Thomas Carlyle

Those Hall of Fame jockeys, they all worked really hard to get where they got. What we younger riders have to do is persevere to follow in their footsteps.
- McKee

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
- Socrates

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
- Daniel Radcliffe

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
- Chuang- tzu

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

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
- Gloria Vanderbilt

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
- Adam Clayton

Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.
- Leonardo DiCaprio

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
- William Hazlitt