Motivational Quotes

Fame

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

2.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

3.

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

4.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

5.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

6.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

7.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

13.

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

Ellinger, Jules

14.

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

Hellman, Lillian

15.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

18.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

19.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Warhol, Andy

21.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

22.

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

Auden, W. H.

23.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

24.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

25.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

26.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

27.

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

28.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

29.

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

30.

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

Madonna

31.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

33.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

34.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

35.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

36.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

37.

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

Villiers, George

38.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

40.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

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

43.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

46.

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

47.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

50.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius