Fame Quotes

"Fame usually comes to ...

"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. " -Holmes
📅︎ Mar 01
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“You’d think that making hit records or money or cars or fame or people saying, “Oh, you’re t...

“You’d think that making hit records or money or cars or fame or people saying, “Oh, you’re the greatest,” people praising you for making your music would do it. But actually, when you start praising God, that’s when you get happy.” – RUN DMC's Rev Run (Jesus Calling podcast interview)
📅︎ Feb 14
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"The sanest people, I think, are those happily unafflicted with ambition — whether f...

"The sanest people, I think, are those happily unafflicted with ambition — whether for power, wealth, fame or achievement — who want only to work at some useful job, to love someone and to live in a nice place with some wind chimes on the porch." -Tim Kreider
📅︎ May 28
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"Don't sell your life fo...

"Don't sell your life for fame. You'll be a star then you'll burn like one" - Me
📅︎ Dec 10
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“Brief is man’s life and small the nook of the Earth where he lives; brief, too, is the lo...

“Brief is man’s life and small the nook of the Earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.” —Marcus Aurelius
📅︎ Oct 14
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You can be a maste...

You can be a master ,Just Don't wait for Luck - Hall Of Fame
📅︎ Nov 02
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“You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never...

“You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.” -Marcus Aurelius
📅︎ Mar 22
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Those who start out...

Those who start out with fame always end up nameless. - Unknown
📅︎ Aug 06
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"I have a definition of success. It’s not ab...

"I have a definition of success. It’s not about wealth and fame and power, it’s about how many shining eyes I have around me.” – Ben Zander
📅︎ Jun 25
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Imagination is gre...

Imagination is greater than public education - Fame or Juliet
📅︎ May 11
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"The only thing I ever got out of fame was a b...

"The only thing I ever got out of fame was a better table in a restaurant. And for that I gave up being able to relate to people." — David Bowie
📅︎ Jun 04
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Don't confuse fame with succ...

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. --Erma Bombeck
📅︎ Sep 23
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“Fame was like a drug. But ...

“Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug was the drugs” — Simpson S11E22
📅︎ Sep 20
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Rather than love, than ...

Rather than love, than money , than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
📅︎ Nov 19
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“The worst fate in the world, for a m...

“The worst fate in the world, for a man who yearns for fame, is to be ignored.” - Robert Greene, The 48 Laws Of Power
📅︎ Jul 06
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"The price of self-knowledge and calm is hardship and suffering. Th...

"The price of self-knowledge and calm is hardship and suffering. This produces the kind of freedom that money cannot buy, power cannot touch and fame has nothing to do with." -Thomas Reynolds (my grandfather)
📅︎ Jul 26
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"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fam...

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." - John Wooden
📅︎ Jul 24
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"Fame can come easily and overnight, but excellence...

"Fame can come easily and overnight, but excellence is almost always accompanied by a crushing workload, pursued with single-minded intensity." - Charles Murray
📅︎ Aug 03
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"What is wealth and f...

"What is wealth and fame when you loose what you love" - Elvis Presley
📅︎ Aug 07
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“Admire ability, experience, and knowledge over fame or wealth. Just because someone is a celeb...

“Admire ability, experience, and knowledge over fame or wealth. Just because someone is a celebrity, it doesn’t make them an authority. Fame does not mean someone has experience, expertise or ability. And just because a celebrity or millionaire said it, doesn't make it true.” - Loren Weisman
📅︎ Nov 07
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MR. ROGERS: Fame is a four-letter word. And li...

MR. ROGERS: Fame is a four-letter word. And like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or life, or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
📅︎ Mar 01
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"Rather than love, than ...

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." -Henry David Thoreau
📅︎ Mar 29
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"Fame makes me feel want...

"Fame makes me feel wanted and loved. Anybody wants that." - Michael Hutchence
📅︎ Aug 06
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Rather than love, than ...

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. – Henry David Thoreau
📅︎ Feb 03
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“Rather than love, than ...

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau
📅︎ May 02
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"“Lying in a featherbed will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, ...

"“Lying in a featherbed will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.” ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
📅︎ Oct 26
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"You tell me then that I must perish like the flowers that I cherish. Nothing rem...

"You tell me then that I must perish like the flowers that I cherish. Nothing remaining of my name, nothing remembered of my fame? But the gardens I planted still are young – The songs I sang will still be sung!" -Huexotzin, Prince of Texcoco, c 1484
📅︎ Sep 27
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"Ambition is the path to success. Persist...

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."- Bill Bradley: American Hall of Fame basketball player
📅︎ Nov 04
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"Rather than love, than mon...

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." -Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
📅︎ Dec 24
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"Prince. The most amazing performer I have ever witn...

"Prince. The most amazing performer I have ever witnessed."—Joni Mitchell in a video message broadcast during Prince's 2006 induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame
📅︎ Jul 02
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"Talent is God-given; be humble. Fam...

"Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be grateful. Conceit is self-given; be careful." - John Wooden
📅︎ Nov 29
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"Fame is like being at a party, and getting invited into the cool room even the ...

"Fame is like being at a party, and getting invited into the cool room even the VIPs can’t get into, then the even cooler, more exclusive room after that. Eventually you end up in a cubicle on your own, asking, ‘Am I having fun?'" - Noel Fielding
📅︎ Jul 26
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"it is strange that men are in such ha...

"it is strange that men are in such haste to get fame as teachers rather than knowledge as learners" -Henry David Thoreau
📅︎ Feb 03
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“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for somethi...

“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.” —Milan Kundera
📅︎ Sep 03
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"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. Fame usually comes to t...

"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else, very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!"" - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
📅︎ Jun 15
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A man whose profession is the use of arms should think and then act upon ...

A man whose profession is the use of arms should think and then act upon not only his fame, but also that of his descendants. He should not scandalise his name forever by holding his one and only life too dear. -Shiba Yoshimasa
📅︎ Dec 27
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