Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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

Sade, Marquis De

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

12.

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

13.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

18.

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

19.

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

20.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

21.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

22.

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

Pound, Ezra

23.

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

Madonna

24.

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

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

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

28.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

29.

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

Cato The Elder

30.

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

31.

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

Huxley, Aldous

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Alexander The Great

36.

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

37.

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

38.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

39.

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

Sewell, Thomas

40.

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

Auden, W. H.

41.

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

Chuang-tzu

42.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

43.

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

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

46.

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

47.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

49.

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

50.

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

Davis, Bette