Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

2.

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

Hellman, Lillian

3.

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

Shakespeare, William

4.

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

5.

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

6.

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

7.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

8.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

9.

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

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

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

Capote, Truman

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

16.

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

Villiers, George

17.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

19.

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

Cato The Elder

20.

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

21.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

22.

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.

23.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

25.

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

Carver, George Washington

26.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

27.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

28.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Warhol, Andy

31.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

32.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

33.

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

34.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

35.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

36.

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

Sade, Marquis De

37.

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

38.

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

Chuang-tzu

39.

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

Dave Kellett

40.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

41.

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

42.

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

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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