Motivational Quotes

Fame

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

- Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

2.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

3.

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

Blake, William

4.

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

5.

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

6.

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

7.

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

Auden, W. H.

8.

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

9.

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

Laura Preble

10.

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

11.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

12.

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

Davis, Bette

13.

Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

14.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

15.

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.

16.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

17.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

18.

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

Cato The Elder

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Warhol, Andy

21.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Wolcot, John

24.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

25.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

26.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Alexander The Great

28.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

29.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

30.

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

31.

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

Baum, Vicki

32.

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

33.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

37.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

38.

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

39.

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

Ellinger, Jules

40.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

41.

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

42.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

43.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

44.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

45.

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

Madonna

46.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William