Top 100 Quotes About Fame And Fortune
#1. Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.
Zicheng Hong
#2. Satan came to a lawyer and told him he would give him fame and fortune in exchange for his soul and the souls of his wife and children. The lawyer hesitated and examined Satan closely.'Okay," he said,"what's the catch?
John O'Dowd
#3. People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'
Linda Thompson
#4. The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.
Libba Bray
#5. No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.
Adam Lambert
#7. As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
Katarina Witt
#8. I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
Siobhan Fahey
#9. Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.
Patti Smith
#10. Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P.N. Elrod
#11. I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
Little Richard
#12. I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#13. It is foolish to be in thrall to fame and fortune, engaged in painful striving all your life with never a moment of peace and tranquillity.
Yoshida Kenko
#14. You will be tested as a leader ... You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune.
Greg Laurie
#16. All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
Dolly Parton
#17. Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
Karrine Steffans
#18. Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer ...
George Washington Carver
#19. Once upon a time when I knew nothing I wanted fame and fortune. Now I know how little I know, I just want to be ...
Stephen Richards
#20. The biggest obstacle facing girls is education, education, education. There are too many kids who think high school is a pit stop to fame and fortune. I want girls in this country to think education is the coolest, most important thing they could ever do in their lives.
Michelle Obama
#21. Thanks to our capacity to adapt to ever greater fame and fortune, yesterday's luxuries can soon become today's necessities and tomorrow's relics.6
Richard Wiseman
#22. Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune
Sandra Brown
#23. You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.
Emo Philips
#24. I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves.
Alfred Kazin
#25. Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
William, Saroyan
#26. Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
Anthony Horowitz
#27. If you couldn't catch up with me before the fame and fortune when you had owed me money and/or took up time with me, why on God's green earth should I take up any more time with you to borrow more money and not see you again until its time to borrow some more.
Cleon T. Day III
#28. I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl and win it. I've been there and not won it. It's really simple for me. You get stats, fame and fortune, but if you don't end up with the ring you're never satisfied.
Shaun Alexander
#29. Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
Ava Gardner
#30. I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. Look at all the teams in America that have folded, and the leagues.
Hope Solo
#31. I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just
there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just.
Anna Nicole Smith
#32. The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.
Jimmy Nail
#33. The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.
Frederick Lenz
#34. A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Denis Waitley
#35. When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
Victor Cruz
#36. I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
Michelle Obama
#37. Millions of people walked through their lives numb, dying to feel something, to feel alive. To be chosen by Cordova for a film was an opportunity for just that, not simply for fame and fortune, but to leave their old selves behind like discarded clothes.
Marisha Pessl
#38. In a world of knowledge and expertise, fame and fortune, status and ranks....nothing has the power to affect change as much as love and compassion.
Ka Chinery
#39. The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
Boyd K. Packer
#40. People come to New York to find fame and fortune. I found both, so I left.
Nancy Seligsohn
#41. Creating something that builds lasting value and changes the lives of millions of people requires forging a team that will work hard to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, stand up to the pressures of fame and fortune, and stay true to the original vision long after others stop believing.
Jay Samit
#42. 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
#43. My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.
James Garner
#45. Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.
Max Walker
#46. Writing is a tough business, but never forget the reason why you write. It's for the love of story telling. Fame and fortune may elude you, but that's no reason to give up. Remember, there's always someone ready to listen to a good story.
Robert Bartram
#47. The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia Earhart
#48. Success, fame, and fortune, they're all illusions. All there is that is real is the friendship that two can share.
Michael James Jackson
#49. To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.
Evangeline Lilly
#50. I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't ... not anymore ... consider fame and fortune my career. I'm not a star. I'm an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense?
Christoph Waltz
#51. Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?
Nicole Richie
#52. I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.
Dave Pelzer
#53. It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
Lesley Garrett
#54. Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard - and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all.
Dan Jenkins
#55. It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.
Robert Fulghum
#56. Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes us happy, cuts to the core of things. It takes him only twelve words to get to the heart of the matter: Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.
Russ Roberts
#57. I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.
Rebecca Ferguson
#58. Winning means fame and fortune.
Losing means certain death.
The Hunger Games have begun ...
Suzanne Collins
#59. The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#60. I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.
Allison Tolman
#61. A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.
Miriam Toews
#62. Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.
Chris Sarandon
#63. I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune.
Umberto Eco
#64. You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.
David Ogilvy
#65. At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
Irving Harper
#66. Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
#67. I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
Robin Gibb
#68. Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
Walter Wykes
#69. Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#70. In the quest for fortune and fame ... don't forget about the simple things.
India.Arie
#71. In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.
Marcus Aurelius
#72. 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
#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. That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Mike Tyson
#75. I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years ... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'
Robin Leach
#76. I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.
Evelyn Ashford
#77. A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.
Bodhidharma
#79. Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#80. Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame.
T.F. Hodge
#81. When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
Charles Bukowski
#82. Upon subjects which interested him, and when quite at ease, he possessed that flow of natural, and somewhat florid eloquence, which has been supposed as powerful as figure, fashion, fame, or fortune, in winning the female heart. There
Walter Scott
#83. Spirituality is about oneness - one love, one seeker, one soul, and one spirituality that speaks to all people. No matter a person's fame, fortune, or faith, they are one with you.
Emma Mildon
#84. A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves, something that withstands the test of time and is passed down for generations.
C.K. Webb
#85. I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.
Abbie Cornish
#86. Honesty is what makes a person. At the end of his life it's one of the things people remember. Your legacy isn't left by fame or fortune. It's left by the footprints of compassion and honesty.
H.M. Ward
#87. Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.
Tupac Shakur
#88. Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.
Alanis Morissette
#89. Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.
Dean Cavanagh
#90. We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money ...
Thomas Bernhard
#91. Globalism has less leeway for a poor country's brilliant sons.
Molly Crabapple
#92. It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
Adam Baldwin
#93. Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
Erika Slezak
#94. Inherent power you possess as part of yourself. Granted power is lent or given by other people.
Patrick Rothfuss
#95. Perhaps he needs the money. Some of the men live too richly for their purses, if you understand me. Fame would allow him large debts, but everything has to be paid back in the end.
Conn Iggulden
#96. So many stars in the sky, each unique and full of destiny. I wanted more than anything to be part of those stars.
I never realized becoming one would destroy me.
Tracy Krimmer
#97. I caught a dream today, in a little place not far from here. Not a dream of fame or fortune, nor one of power and glory, but something more important. I caught a dream of paradise: A paradise of smallmouths, a favorite dog, a clear running stream, and most importantly, contentment. Th
Noey Vineyard
#98. Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.
John Fahey
#99. One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#100. Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
