Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Villiers, George

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Madonna

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

Johnson, Don

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Davis, Bette

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

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

10.

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

Alexander The Great

11.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

12.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

13.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

15.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

16.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Cato The Elder

20.

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

Chuang-tzu

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Sewell, Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

27.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

28.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

30.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

31.

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

32.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

33.

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

34.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

35.

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

Huxley, Aldous

36.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.