The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
John LennonGetting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘
Billie EilishThere’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.
Dave GrohlIf you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
John C. MaxwellThat’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
Stephen KingEach new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas SowellI get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
Taylor SwiftOur focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.
Kanye WestThese critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.
John LennonWhoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim RohnNo legacy is so rich as honesty.
William ShakespearePeople are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.
Bill GatesIt is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. ClarkeEvery President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
Billy GrahamI think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
Lou HoltzI have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
Anthony HopkinsThe way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis BaconI wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
Muhammad AliTo be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.
The WeekndMy reputation precedes me now.
Dwayne JohnsonWe can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.
Thich Nhat HanhThere is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas JeffersonYou can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.
J. ColeThat is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
Lady GagaGreat men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo EmersonJoanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.
Lady GagaI would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.
Jane GoodallFame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
David BowieThe reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin LutherYou know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.
EminemWe were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.
John LennonHistory shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas CarlyleI think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.
Kevin HartActually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
BonoThe hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.
Vivienne WestwoodMan gives you the award but God gives you the reward.
Denzel WashingtonThere is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar WildeNever was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolo MachiavelliWhen art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich NietzscheIt was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
Jane GoodallLetters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas JeffersonI do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily DickinsonI know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.
Dave GrohlA lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.
Nipsey HussleFame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch SpinozaBeing acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.
Kendrick LamarIn art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
Frank OceanBecoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
Edmund HillaryMan’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise PascalI guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Neil ArmstrongAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander PopeThe present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
Marilyn MonroeNothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas CarlyleAt my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.
Bob UeckerI’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.
Nipsey HussleGreat men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur SchopenhauerWell, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.
LeBron James