Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Madonna

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Baum, Vicki

10.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

11.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Capote, Truman

13.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

14.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

15.

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

16.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

17.

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

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.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

20.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

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

Villiers, George

22.

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

23.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

25.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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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

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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.

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

Cato The Elder

31.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

33.

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

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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.

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

Voltaire

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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

39.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

40.

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

Dave Kellett

41.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

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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

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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

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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

47.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

48.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

49.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

50.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.