Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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.

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Warhol, Andy

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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

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

Blake, William

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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

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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

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Dave Kellett

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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

Madonna

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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)

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pound, Ezra

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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

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.