Motivational Quotes

Fame

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Madonna

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Alexander The Great

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Parkinson, Cecil

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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

10.

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

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

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

Ellinger, Jules

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

17.

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

18.

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

Voltaire

19.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Pound, Ezra

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.

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

Cato The Elder

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

27.

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

Auden, W. H.

28.

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

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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

30.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

31.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

32.

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

33.

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

Blake, William

34.

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

35.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hellman, Lillian

39.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

40.

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

Sade, Marquis De

41.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

43.

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

Benjamin Haydon

44.

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

45.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

46.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

47.

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

Hazlitt, William

48.

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

49.

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

Davis, Bette

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid