Motivational Quotes

Fame

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.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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

Cato The Elder

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

10.

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

Sade, Marquis De

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Madonna

17.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

20.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

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

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.

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

Warhol, Andy

26.

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

Ellinger, Jules

27.

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

28.

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

29.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

30.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

31.

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

Dave Kellett

32.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

33.

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

Hazlitt, William

34.

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

35.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

Voltaire

37.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

45.

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

Pound, Ezra

46.

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

47.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

50.

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