Motivational Quotes

Fame

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

- Alda, Alan

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

2.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

4.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

5.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

6.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

7.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

9.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

10.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

11.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

12.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

14.

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

15.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

16.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

17.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

18.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

20.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

21.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

22.

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

23.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

24.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

25.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

26.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

27.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

28.

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

29.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

31.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

32.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

33.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

34.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

36.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

37.

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

38.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

41.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

42.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

43.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

44.

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

45.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

46.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

49.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.