Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Davis, Bette

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

Parkinson, Cecil

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Laura Preble

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Carver, George Washington

20.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

21.

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

22.

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

Auden, W. H.

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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

24.

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

Cato The Elder

25.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

26.

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

27.

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

Hellman, Lillian

28.

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

29.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

30.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Ellinger, Jules

34.

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

35.

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

Warhol, Andy

36.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

37.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

41.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

42.

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

43.

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

Sewell, Thomas

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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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De