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

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

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

Villiers, George

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Voltaire

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Pope, Alexander

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Pound, Ezra

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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.

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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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

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

Madonna

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Davis, Miles

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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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