Motivational Quotes

Fame

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

2.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

3.

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

Sewell, Thomas

4.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

6.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

7.

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

Hellman, Lillian

8.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

9.

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

10.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

11.

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

Pound, Ezra

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Ellinger, Jules

18.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

19.

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

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

Wolcot, John

22.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Dave Kellett

24.

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

25.

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

Alexander The Great

26.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

27.

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

28.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

31.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

32.

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

33.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Capote, Truman

37.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

38.

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

39.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

41.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

42.

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

Johnson, Don

43.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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

Blake, William

45.

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

46.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

48.

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

Voltaire

49.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.