Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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

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

Pound, Ezra

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

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

Sewell, Thomas

13.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

18.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

19.

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

20.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

21.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

22.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

25.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Laura Preble

30.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

31.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

Chuang-tzu

35.

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

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.

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

38.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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

40.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

41.

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

Cato The Elder

42.

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

Carver, George Washington

43.

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

44.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

46.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Hazlitt, William

49.

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

50.

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

Hellman, Lillian