Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

2.

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

Ellinger, Jules

3.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Cato The Elder

7.

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

Warhol, Andy

8.

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

Davis, Bette

9.

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

Benjamin Haydon

10.

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

Baum, Vicki

11.

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

12.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

13.

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

Pound, Ezra

14.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

15.

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

Wolcot, John

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

Sewell, Thomas

20.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

21.

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

22.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

24.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

26.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

27.

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

28.

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

29.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

30.

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

31.

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

Johnson, Don

32.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

33.

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

34.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

35.

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

36.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

37.

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

Alexander The Great

38.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

39.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

41.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

42.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

45.

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

46.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

47.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

48.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

49.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.