Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Proverb, Chinese

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

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

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

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

10.

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

11.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

12.

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

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

14.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

15.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

17.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

18.

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

Sewell, Thomas

19.

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

20.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

22.

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

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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

24.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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)

26.

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

33.

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

Mills, C. Wright

34.

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

35.

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

Hellman, Lillian

36.

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.

37.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.