Motivational Quotes

Fame

I had it all and blew it.

- Mantle, Mickey

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

4.

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

Wolcot, John

5.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

6.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

10.

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

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Baum, Vicki

13.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

16.

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

17.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

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.

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

21.

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

22.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

23.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Sade, Marquis De

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

31.

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

Cato The Elder

32.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

33.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

34.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

35.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Pound, Ezra

41.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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 a fickle food upon a shifting plate.