Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Parkinson, Cecil

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Warhol, Andy

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

10.

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

Pound, Ezra

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Hellman, Lillian

16.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Auden, W. H.

19.

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

Baum, Vicki

20.

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

21.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

22.

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

23.

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

Hazlitt, William

24.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

25.

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.

26.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

32.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

33.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

34.

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

Sade, Marquis De

35.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Sewell, Thomas

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

44.

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

45.

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

Pope, Alexander

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Benjamin Haydon

50.

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.