Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is a constant effort

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

2.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

3.

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

4.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Sade, Marquis De

8.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

9.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

10.

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

Dave Kellett

11.

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

Huxley, Aldous

12.

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

Pope, Alexander

13.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

14.

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.

15.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

16.

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

Hellman, Lillian

17.

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

Alexander The Great

18.

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

Ellinger, Jules

19.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

22.

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

Auden, W. H.

23.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Benjamin Haydon

27.

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

28.

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)

29.

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

Cato The Elder

30.

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

Capote, Truman

31.

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.

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

34.

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

35.

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

Chuang-tzu

36.

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

37.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

38.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

39.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

40.

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

41.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

42.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

44.

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

Blake, William

45.

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

46.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

47.

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

48.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

49.

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

50.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.