Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Fame

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Davis, Bette

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

10.

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

11.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

12.

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

Baum, Vicki

13.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

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

16.

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

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.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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

27.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

28.

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

29.

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

Laura Preble

30.

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

31.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

32.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Wolcot, John

34.

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

Carver, George Washington

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Davis, Miles

40.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

42.

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

Dave Kellett

43.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

44.

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

Mills, C. Wright

45.

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

Pound, Ezra

46.

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

48.

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

49.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

50.

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