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

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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

Madonna

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.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Wolcot, John

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

10.

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

Sade, Marquis De

11.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Auden, W. H.

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Ellinger, Jules

20.

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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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 short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

27.

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 only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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

30.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rivarol, Antoine

33.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

35.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carver, George Washington