Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Capote, Truman

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

2.

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

Capote, Truman

3.

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

Sewell, Thomas

4.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

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

Davis, Bette

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.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

8.

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

9.

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.

10.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Mills, C. Wright

12.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

13.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

17.

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

Hellman, Lillian

18.

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

19.

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

Auden, W. H.

20.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Dave Kellett

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.

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

26.

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

Blake, William

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

29.

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

Sade, Marquis De

30.

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

31.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

36.

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

Madonna

37.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

38.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

39.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

41.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

42.

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

Pope, Alexander

43.

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

Chuang-tzu

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Warhol, Andy

46.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

48.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

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