Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

2.

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

Pope, Alexander

3.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

4.

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

Hazlitt, William

5.

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

6.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

7.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

15.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

16.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

17.

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

18.

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

Davis, Miles

19.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

20.

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

Sewell, Thomas

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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

23.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

24.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

25.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

26.

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

27.

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

Mills, C. Wright

28.

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

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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.

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

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

41.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

42.

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

Hellman, Lillian

43.

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.