Motivational Quotes

Fame

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Fame

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Blake, William

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dave Kellett

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.

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

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

Wolcot, John

10.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

11.

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

12.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

16.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

17.

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

18.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

19.

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)

20.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

21.

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

22.

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

23.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

25.

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

Ellinger, Jules

26.

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

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Madonna

29.

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

30.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

Laura Preble

32.

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

Warhol, Andy

33.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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

35.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

36.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

37.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

38.

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

39.

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

Pope, Alexander

40.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Pound, Ezra

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

46.

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

Villiers, George

47.

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

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Popular applause veers with the wind.