Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

Madonna

2.

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

3.

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

Hazlitt, William

4.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Capote, Truman

10.

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

11.

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

Alexander The Great

12.

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

Chuang-tzu

13.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

14.

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

Pound, Ezra

15.

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

Cato The Elder

16.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

17.

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

18.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

19.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

22.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

24.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Sade, Marquis De

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

28.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

29.

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.

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

Wolcot, John

32.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

33.

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

Ellinger, Jules

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

37.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

38.

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

39.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

43.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

44.

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.

45.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

46.

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

47.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

49.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

50.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.