Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Chuang-tzu

13.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

14.

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

Warhol, Andy

15.

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.

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

17.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

18.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

19.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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.

22.

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

23.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

24.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

25.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

27.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

31.

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

32.

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

Sade, Marquis De

33.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

34.

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

Villiers, George

35.

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

Wolcot, John

36.

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

Laura Preble

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Voltaire

39.

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

40.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

41.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

42.

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

43.

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

Mills, C. Wright

44.

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

45.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

46.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

Baum, Vicki

48.

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

49.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil