Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Dave Kellett

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Davis, Bette

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hellman, Lillian

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

19.

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

Pound, Ezra

20.

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

21.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

22.

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

Laura Preble

23.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

24.

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

Mills, C. Wright

25.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

26.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

28.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

29.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

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.

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.

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Auden, W. H.

37.

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

38.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

39.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

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

41.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

42.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

43.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

44.

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

45.

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

Warhol, Andy

46.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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