Motivational Quotes

Fame

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

2.

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

Johnson, Don

3.

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

4.

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

Proverb, Chinese

5.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

6.

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

Alexander The Great

7.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Baum, Vicki

11.

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

Warhol, Andy

12.

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

Benjamin Haydon

13.

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

14.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

15.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

17.

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

18.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

22.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

23.

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

Ellinger, Jules

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Capote, Truman

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

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

29.

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

Pound, Ezra

30.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

31.

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

32.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

33.

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

34.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Dave Kellett

36.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

39.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Villiers, George

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

48.

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

49.

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