Fame Quotes

• With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

  Albert Einstein

  Stupid, Memorable, Ironic

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

  Horace Greeley

  Wisdom, Character, Wings

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• Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Mean, Idols

  "Erica Jong talks sex at 73". Interview With Danielle Berrin, jewishjournal.com. October 15, 2015.

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• If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.

  Loren Cunningham

  Christian, Fear, Heaven

  Loren Cunningham (1997). “Making Jesus Lord: The Dynamic Power of Laying Down Your Rights”, p.70, YWAM Publishing

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• If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

  Jack London

  Cash, Ifs

  Jack London (1988). “The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three”, p.129, Stanford University Press

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• You don't need the fame to be vital.

  Herbie Hancock

  Meaning Of Life, Needs

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• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Loneliness

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• We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of being a famous writer, and again there's a slight disconnect with reality which happens a lot with me. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reality, Interesting, Would Be

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• 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.

  Fred Rogers

  Pain, Zoom, Tape

  "The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember".

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• If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.

  Bobby Knight

  Opinion, Popularity, Careful

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• Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

  George Eliot

  Violin, Kind, Mass

  George Eliot (1885). “Poems: Together with Brother Jacob and The Lifted Veil”

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• If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it.
  [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

  Martial

  After Death, Gloria, Posts

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• Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

  Ouida

  Flower, Next, Sun

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.33, Ouida

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• An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

  Edward Everett

  Memories, Character, Illustration

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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• The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Men, Letters

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.237

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• Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.157

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• What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Years, Two

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• In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.

  Jane Porter

  Mother, Beloved Wife, Careers

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• Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Fighting, Hazards, Satisfaction

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• The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Passion, Mean

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• What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

  Alexander Pope

  Breaths

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.446

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• I would love to be in the Hall Of Fame.

  Rob Halford

  Halls, Hall Of Fame

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• What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

  Lord Byron

  Idols, People, Literature

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• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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