Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Dave Kellett

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)

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Voltaire

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Wolcot, John

10.

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

Blake, William

11.

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

Davis, Bette

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Benjamin Haydon

15.

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

Alexander The Great

16.

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

Hellman, Lillian

17.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

18.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

19.

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

20.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

21.

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

Chuang-tzu

22.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

23.

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

24.

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

Warhol, Andy

25.

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

26.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

32.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

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

34.

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

35.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

36.

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.

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.

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

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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

40.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

41.

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

42.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

43.

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

44.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.

I was the only one there I never heard of.