Motivational Quotes
Fame
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Best Quotes about Fame
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
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
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
Davis, Miles
Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
Picasso, Pablo
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Colton, Charles Caleb
Fame is a constant effort
Renard, Jules
The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.
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
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Cicero, Marcus T.
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I had it all and blew it.
Mantle, Mickey
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
Auden, W. H.
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Martial, Marcus Valerius
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
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)
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Hellman, Lillian
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Mills, C. Wright
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
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
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
Popular applause veers with the wind.
Bright, John
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Cato The Elder
I was the only one there I never heard of.
Farber, Barry J.
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.
Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Huxley, Aldous
There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
Ellinger, Jules
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
Acquaintance lessens fame.
Claudius
People should realize we're jerks just like them.
Bono, Edward De
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
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
The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Warhol, Andy
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Parkinson, Cecil
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
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Lessing, Doris
If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?
Laura Preble
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
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.
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Blake, William
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Baum, Vicki
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
When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Carver, George Washington
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
Pitt, Brad
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
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
Sade, Marquis De
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
It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.
Rosie O'Donnell
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