Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

2.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

Pope, Alexander

4.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

5.

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

Mills, C. Wright

6.

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

Hellman, Lillian

7.

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

8.

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

Voltaire

9.

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

10.

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

Madonna

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.

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

Laura Preble

13.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

14.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

15.

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

Davis, Miles

16.

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

Sade, Marquis De

17.

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

Cato The Elder

18.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

23.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

24.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

25.

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

Dave Kellett

26.

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

27.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

31.

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

Benjamin Haydon

32.

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

33.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

35.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.