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

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

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Cato The Elder

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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

Pound, Ezra

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

11.

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

Hellman, Lillian

12.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

13.

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

Warhol, Andy

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Baum, Vicki

16.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

17.

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

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Davis, Bette

22.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

24.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

25.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Ellinger, Jules

41.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

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

Madonna

43.

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

Sewell, Thomas

44.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

46.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

47.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

48.

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

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.

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.