Quotes about Fame

Famous quotes about recognition and greatness


There are billions of people in the world and not everyone is known by others. It is technically not possible. There are just a few who get famous and remain in the hearts of people for years. Quotes about fame are a mirror to make you understand and show what fame is and what it does for people who get it.

This is a human psyche and nature that we want all the appreciation and attention of people who are around us and even in the virtual world. People want to be famous and known for so many reasons, it is addictive and makes people commit unusual acts just to be in people’s eyes. Fame does influence many people in a good way and they use all their popularity and fame to do great jobs for humanity and this mother earth.

Let us have a deep look into our amazing collection of quotes about fame which will uncover deep lessons for you if you only seek fame and not considering the consequences and effects that are a by-product of getting famous. It is always a great idea to look and search for anything you’re going to delve into. So here’s the first step for you, read folks :)


Fame Quotes and sayings


quotes about fame
  • You can't get rich thinking poor.
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  • Hustle until your haters ask if you're hiring.
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  • 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. - 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. - Schopenhauer

  • 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

  • There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. - Franklin