Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Vanderbilt, Gloria

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Baum, Vicki

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Voltaire

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

10.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

11.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

12.

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

13.

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

Sewell, Thomas

14.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

15.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

Huxley, Aldous

17.

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

Wolcot, John

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

23.

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

24.

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)

25.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

27.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

28.

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

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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

30.

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

Warhol, Andy

31.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

32.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

33.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

37.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

39.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

40.

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

41.

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

Laura Preble

42.

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

43.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

44.

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

45.

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

Madonna

46.

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

47.

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

Pope, Alexander

48.

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

Dave Kellett

49.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.