Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Benjamin Haydon

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

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

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

Davis, Miles

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

Caussin, Nicolas

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

11.

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

Blake, William

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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

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Davis, Bette

16.

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

17.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

19.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Villiers, George

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

Chuang-tzu

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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

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

Sade, Marquis De

27.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

28.

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

Laura Preble

29.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

30.

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

Wolcot, John

31.

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

32.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

33.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

34.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

35.

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

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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

37.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Benjamin Haydon

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

46.

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

Cato The Elder

47.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

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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