Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Sade, Marquis De

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

10.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

11.

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

12.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

13.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Alexander The Great

17.

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

Laura Preble

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Davis, Bette

23.

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

24.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

25.

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

Dave Kellett

26.

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

27.

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

Ellinger, Jules

28.

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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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

31.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

32.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

33.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

34.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

35.

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

Cato The Elder

36.

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

37.

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

Warhol, Andy

38.

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

39.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

40.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

41.

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

Chuang-tzu

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