Motivational Quotes

Fame

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

- Rosie O'Donnell

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

2.

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

Alexander The Great

3.

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

Shakespeare, William

4.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

5.

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

Pound, Ezra

6.

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

Warhol, Andy

7.

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

Davis, Bette

8.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

9.

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

10.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

12.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

14.

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

Davis, Miles

15.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

16.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

20.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

22.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

26.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

27.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

28.

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

29.

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

30.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

31.

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

Hellman, Lillian

32.

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

33.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

34.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

35.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

36.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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.

38.

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

Hazlitt, William

39.

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

Villiers, George

40.

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

Mills, C. Wright

41.

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

42.

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

Cato The Elder

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

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

45.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

46.

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

47.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

48.

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