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Fame hides her head among the clouds.
- Virgil
Fame Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Fame

1.
Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.
Virgil

2.
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

3.
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

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.
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
Nabokov, Vladimir

6.
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)

7.
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

8.
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

9.
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

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.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Cicero, Marcus T.

12.
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

13.
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

14.
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

15.
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

16.
Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo

17.
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.
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

20.
What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!
Wolcot, John

21.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Martial, Marcus Valerius

22.
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
Alexander The Great

23.
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

24.
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

25.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
Auden, W. H.

27.
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

28.
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Pope, Alexander

29.
I was the only one there I never heard of.
Farber, Barry J.

30.
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
Sade, Marquis De

31.
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Caussin, Nicolas

32.
Fame is the thirst of youth.
Byron, Lord

33.
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

34.
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

35.
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
Ovid

36.
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

37.
Fame hides her head among the clouds.
Virgil

38.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Allen, Fred A.

39.
People should realize we're jerks just like them.
Bono, Edward De

40.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Cato The Elder

41.
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

42.
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

43.
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

44.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Parkinson, Cecil

45.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Davis, Bette

46.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
Hazlitt, William

47.
Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.
Wynette, Tammy

48.
Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
Capote, Truman

49.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Erasmus, Desiderius

50.
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


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