Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

6.

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

7.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

8.

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

Alexander The Great

9.

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

Benjamin Haydon

10.

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

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

13.

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

Sewell, Thomas

14.

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

Carver, George Washington

15.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

19.

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

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

23.

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

Pound, Ezra

24.

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

25.

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Dave Kellett

29.

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

Hellman, Lillian

30.

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

Capote, Truman

31.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

35.

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.

36.

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

Auden, W. H.

37.

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

38.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

39.

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.

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

Fame is a constant effort