Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baum, Vicki

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

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

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

Villiers, George

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

10.

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

11.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

12.

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

Cato The Elder

13.

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

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.

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

16.

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

Wolcot, John

17.

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

18.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

20.

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

21.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

22.

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

23.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

24.

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

25.

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

Ellinger, Jules

26.

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

Sewell, Thomas

27.

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

Johnson, Don

28.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

29.

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.

30.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

34.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

36.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

37.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

39.

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

Pope, Alexander

40.

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

41.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

42.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

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

Madonna

48.

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