Top 100 Fame Success Quotes
#1. It's folly to measure your success in money or fame. Success is measured only by your ability to say yes to these two questions: Did I do the work I needed to do? Did I give it everything I had?
Cheryl Strayed
#2. Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
Erma Bombeck
#3. Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you ... hence the delusion necessary to push on.
Marc Maron
#4. I think there are a lot of people who are afraid to be who they are, and if I have to sacrifice a little bit of fame and a little bit of success because I'm being 100 percent truthful with who I am, hopefully that will create a paved way for someone else.
Todrick Hall
#5. The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success ... as a group blacks must give up their illusions.
Kristin Hunter
#6. It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
Robbie Williams
#7. Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
Famke Janssen
#8. Until we know who we are and why we are here, no amount of success, fame, money, or pleasure will provide much satisfaction.
James C. Dobson
#9. ...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself.
Jennifer Mason-Black
#10. Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.
Ernest Shackleton
#11. October 1976 was the penultimate performance of Bench's Hall of Fame career. All the early success and awards and accolades thrown in his direction had prepared him for this moment - when the Big Red Machine became a dynasty by defending it's World Championship from the season before.
Tucker Elliot
#12. The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
Benjamin Disraeli
#13. Los Angeles is a lonely city. Everyone is focused on advancement success fame and money, it is hard to adjust to a culture based on always wanting more, on never being satisfied.
James Frey
#14. Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#15. My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.
Manny Pacquiao
#16. Globalism has less leeway for a poor country's brilliant sons.
Molly Crabapple
#17. Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
Jonathan Sacks
#18. Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
A.R. Rahman
#19. There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame - manhood, character, stand for success ... nothing else really does.
Orison Swett Marden
#20. Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.
Ana Ivanovic
#21. I didn't want to become like so many of the young people I've worked with who have money, fame, and success but don't know who they are as people.
Tina Majorino
#22. Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
Bliss Carman
#23. Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.
Anson Mount
#24. Many people seek fame outside the home without ever realizing how spectacularly famous they are in it.
Charles F. Glassman
#25. I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul.
Rachel Scott
#26. Nothing is worth your integrity. Not success, not money, not fame. Nothing.
Ryan Hall
#27. Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#28. Success in the arts is not measured in money or fame. It is about reaching that inner sanctum where the purest form of artistry takes place.
Craig A. Hart
#29. I'm doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I'm concerned, I'll be completely visible. If the painting sells, I'll be in Paris, hanging on a wall. If anything, I'm being selfish. It's perfect; all the freedom of creation, with none of the fuss.
Jessie Burton
#30. Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
Noel Gallagher
#31. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.
Michael Jackson
#33. Success, fame, and fortune, they're all illusions. All there is that is real is the friendship that two can share.
Michael James Jackson
#34. I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
Drew Barrymore
#35. We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
Florence King
#36. Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.
Watchman Nee
#37. Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
H.G.Wells
#38. Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.
Richard Branson
#39. The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Jean Cocteau
#40. Any lady who has been disappointed might take satisfaction in achieving fame and success about which her former suitor might hear
Jill Pitkeathley
#41. If you go through the biography of any famous personality you idolize you are sure to see the how the words 'I can' and 'I believe' played a very vital role in their fame.
Stephen Richards
#42. I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.
Vidya Balan
#43. With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
Cyndi Lauper
#44. Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.
Mike Ditka
#45. You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.
Sue Grafton
#46. Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
Big Sean
#48. If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#49. Most everything I do on a creative level is beyond the fame and money. I sort of work as an actor ... and take care of my family and mouths to feed and all of that. I don't really care about fame, but our business means money sometimes and financial success, which I can pass on to my family.
Corbin Bernsen
#50. Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?
Rajneesh
#51. There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not.
Ellen DeGeneres
#52. If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.
Frederick Lenz
#53. Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.
T.F. Hodge
#54. The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
Criss Jami
#55. My fame came from my success as a country music singer.
Mindy McCready
#56. Most people think the more money, luxury or fame they have, the more successful they are; but I think that the true sign of success depends on how many positive emotions they experience each day.
Maddy Malhotra
#57. There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.
Corey Hart
#58. We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being.
Paul Simonon
#59. sometimes we get confused and believe that our gift must bring us money or success or fame.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#60. Most people inherit success and fame; if you have earned it piece by piece you will know how hard it is.
M.F. Moonzajer
#61. Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.
Shannon L. Alder
#62. The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.
Jeremy Luke
#63. learn pretty damn fast that everything else is smoke and mirrors. Fame. Money. Success. You realize that life is fleeting and family's what it's all about. It's the only thing that matters.
Brenda Novak
#64. Art is made by the alone for the alone ... The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication ...
Cyril Connolly
#65. Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
Shakira
#66. You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Brian Tracy
#67. The fame is birthed through the opposition. The success through the dynamism of fighting the despair. No fight, No lift!
Paul Gitwaza
#68. I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.
Donald Trump
#69. I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do.
Jenna Jameson
#70. I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Steve Martin
#71. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
Vanilla Ice
#72. I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.
John Legend
#73. I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
Lee Iacocca
#74. You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
Linda Evans
#75. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#76. Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.
Edward Everett
#77. The only model to me that correlates with big success in the NFL is having a Hall of Fame franchise quarterback.
Jeffrey Lurie
#78. The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame.
Define your success as a person of values.
Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be available to you.
Raphael Zernoff
#79. I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.
Benjamin Zander
#80. When you reach a certain level of fame or success or income all these magical things are going to happen to you. All of the sudden you're very popular. You're very pretty. Everyone loves you and that's going to fix all your problems.
Jessica Origliasso
#81. Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.
Faye Dunaway
#82. I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.
Martin McDonagh
#83. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#84. I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
Brenda Blethyn
#85. Builders insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to do with or without counting on wealth, fame, power, or public acceptance as an outcome.
Jerry I. Porras
#86. I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
Anita Roddick
#87. Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.
Julia Cameron
#88. If success could heal, why do so many celebrity marriages end in divorce and celebrated artists wind up in rehab or the morgue? Why do people with a firm grip on the world's tail take their own lives or pursue suicidally risky behaviors?
Peter Coyote
#89. There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#90. Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
Drake
#91. Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life became as much of a driving force of her fame and success as any role she played in the movies.
William J. Mann
#92. I made my name". What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development
Sunday Adelaja
#93. No one can stop you from shinning if you are standing in your own light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#94. That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.
Don Yaeger
#95. Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Vicki Baum
#96. You will be tested as a leader ... You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune.
Greg Laurie
#97. Fame and success are very different things.
Enya
#98. I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.
Troy Garity
#99. It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two different things. And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle.
Enya
#100. No, it wasn't quite true that John had no conscience at all. Everyone had one. But there were many voices in his head that had an easier time reaching him: his ambition, his desire for fame and success - and for revenge.
Cornelia Funke
