Motivational Quotes

Fame

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Dave Kellett

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

Alexander The Great

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

12.

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

13.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

16.

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

Wolcot, John

17.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

18.

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

19.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

20.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

21.

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)

22.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

25.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

26.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

27.

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

28.

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

Sade, Marquis De

29.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

30.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

39.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

40.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

41.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

42.

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