Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Baum, Vicki

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Alexander The Great

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

10.

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)

11.

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

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

14.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

15.

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

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

23.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

Sewell, Thomas

25.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

26.

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

27.

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

Dave Kellett

28.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

29.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

31.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

32.

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

33.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

35.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

36.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Capote, Truman

40.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

41.

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

42.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

43.

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

44.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

45.

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

46.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Warhol, Andy