Motivational Quotes

Fame

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Fame

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Voltaire

10.

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.

11.

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

Cato The Elder

12.

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

13.

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

14.

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

Sade, Marquis De

15.

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

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

18.

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

19.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

21.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

22.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

23.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

25.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

26.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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)

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

30.

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

31.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

35.

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

Benjamin Haydon

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Capote, Truman

38.

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

39.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

42.

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

43.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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

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 love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

47.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

48.

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

Hellman, Lillian

49.

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

50.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John