Motivational Quotes

Fame

Acquaintance lessens fame.

- Claudius

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Blake, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

11.

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)

12.

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

Pope, Alexander

13.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

15.

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

Mills, C. Wright

16.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

19.

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

Sewell, Thomas

20.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

21.

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

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

Baum, Vicki

24.

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.

25.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

34.

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

35.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

36.

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

Alexander The Great

37.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.