Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Fame

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

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

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

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

10.

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

11.

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

Carver, George Washington

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

14.

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

Villiers, George

15.

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

Pound, Ezra

16.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

18.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

20.

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.

21.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

25.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

27.

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

28.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

29.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Davis, Bette

37.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

38.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

40.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

41.

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

42.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

43.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

47.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Johnson, Don

50.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.