Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Fame

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

11.

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

Madonna

12.

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

13.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

18.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

19.

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

Auden, W. H.

20.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

23.

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

Dave Kellett

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Hellman, Lillian

27.

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

28.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Capote, Truman

31.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

32.

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

33.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

34.

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

Pound, Ezra

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

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

Warhol, Andy

37.

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

38.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

39.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

40.

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

Huxley, Aldous

41.

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

42.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

43.

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

44.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

45.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.