Motivational Quotes

Fame

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

Pope, Alexander

2.

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

3.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

4.

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)

5.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

6.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

7.

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

Laura Preble

8.

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

Madonna

9.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

13.

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

14.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

18.

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

Baum, Vicki

19.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

20.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

24.

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

27.

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

Wolcot, John

28.

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

29.

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

30.

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

31.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

32.

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

33.

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

Blake, William

34.

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

35.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

36.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

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

Hazlitt, William

38.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

40.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

42.

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

43.

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

Cato The Elder

44.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

45.

Acquaintance lessens fame.