Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Parkinson, Cecil

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

Pound, Ezra

2.

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

Huxley, Aldous

3.

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

4.

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

5.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

6.

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

Hazlitt, William

7.

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

Alexander The Great

8.

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

9.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

11.

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)

12.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Sewell, Thomas

15.

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

Baum, Vicki

16.

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

Blake, William

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

20.

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

Mills, C. Wright

21.

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

22.

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

Carver, George Washington

23.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

24.

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

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

26.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

27.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

28.

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

29.

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

Capote, Truman

30.

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

31.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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

Warhol, Andy

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Laura Preble

39.

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

Chuang-tzu

40.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

41.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.