Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Davis, Miles

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

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

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Laura Preble

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward 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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Warhol, Andy

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Alexander The Great

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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, 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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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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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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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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