Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Davis, Miles

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

Wolcot, John

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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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 fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

21.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Blake, William

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

35.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

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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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

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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 always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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