Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

2.

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

3.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

4.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

5.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

6.

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

Ellinger, Jules

7.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

8.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

9.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

10.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

11.

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

Sewell, Thomas

12.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

14.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

15.

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

Cato The Elder

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Benjamin Haydon

21.

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

22.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Villiers, George

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Carver, George Washington

29.

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

Blake, William

30.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

31.

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

Capote, Truman

32.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

33.

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

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

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

Laura Preble

37.

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

40.

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

41.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

42.

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

43.

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

Pound, Ezra

44.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

45.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

46.

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

47.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Dave Kellett