Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

Auden, W. H.

2.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

3.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.

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

Cato The Elder

5.

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

6.

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

Ellinger, Jules

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

10.

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

11.

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)

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.

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

Dave Kellett

14.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

18.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

19.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

20.

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

21.

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

Blake, William

22.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

25.

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

26.

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

Wolcot, John

27.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

30.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

31.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

32.

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

33.

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

34.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

35.

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.

36.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

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

Alexander The Great

38.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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