Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Fame

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hazlitt, William

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Blake, William

15.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

16.

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

Alexander The Great

17.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

22.

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

Dave Kellett

23.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

24.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

25.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

26.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

28.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

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

30.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

35.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

37.

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

Huxley, Aldous

38.

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

Sade, Marquis De

39.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

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

Villiers, George

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

44.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

45.

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

Pound, Ezra

46.

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

47.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

48.

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

49.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

50.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.