Motivational Quotes
Fame
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Best Quotes about Fame
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
Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
Proverb, Chinese
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
I want to be famous everywhere.
Pavarotti, Luciano
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Thoreau, Henry David
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
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
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
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
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
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
Benjamin Haydon
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
Davis, Miles
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Garland, Judy
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Parkinson, Cecil
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.
Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius
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
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Martial, Marcus Valerius
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Hellman, Lillian
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Huxley, Aldous
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
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Pope, Alexander
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
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
Sade, Marquis De
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
Hazlitt, William
We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.
Sewell, Thomas
There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
Ellinger, Jules
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
Proverb, French
Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
Shakespeare, William
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
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Martial, Marcus Valerius
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
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Dickinson, Emily
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
Hazlitt, William
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.
Boorstin, Daniel J.
To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.
David Nicholls
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Franklin, Benjamin
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
J. K. Rowling
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Cioran, E. M.
Fame is the thirst of youth.
Byron, Lord
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Rivarol, Antoine
Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo
A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
Boorstin, Daniel J.
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
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