Motivational Quotes

Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Fame

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

12.

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

13.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

14.

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

15.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

16.

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

17.

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

Auden, W. H.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

22.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

23.

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

Dave Kellett

24.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

25.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

26.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

27.

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

28.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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.

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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

31.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

32.

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.

33.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

36.

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

Davis, Bette

37.

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

Laura Preble

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

40.

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

41.

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

Benjamin Haydon

42.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Wolcot, John

45.

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

46.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

48.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

49.

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

50.

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