Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

Benjamin Haydon

3.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

4.

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

Dave Kellett

5.

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

6.

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

Hazlitt, William

7.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

8.

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

Hellman, Lillian

9.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

10.

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

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

13.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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)

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

20.

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

Cato The Elder

21.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

22.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

23.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

24.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

25.

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

Huxley, Aldous

26.

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

27.

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

Madonna

28.

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

Davis, Miles

29.

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

Blake, William

30.

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

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

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

33.

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

Capote, Truman

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

40.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

41.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

42.

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

Chuang-tzu

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Alexander The Great

48.

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

49.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

50.

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

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