Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Wolcot, John

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

Blake, William

2.

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.

3.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

5.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

10.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Dave Kellett

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

15.

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

Baum, Vicki

16.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

17.

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

Johnson, Don

18.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

19.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

20.

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

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.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

23.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

24.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

27.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

29.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

30.

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

Carver, George Washington

31.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

38.

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

39.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

41.

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

42.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

43.

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

Cato The Elder

44.

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

Sade, Marquis De

45.

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

46.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

47.

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

Hellman, Lillian

48.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

49.

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

50.

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