Motivational Quotes

Fame

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Villiers, George

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Davis, Bette

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

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Capote, Truman

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

12.

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 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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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

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

16.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

21.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Voltaire

23.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

24.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

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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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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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

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

Madonna

32.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Hazlitt, William

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

40.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

41.

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

42.

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

Dave Kellett

43.

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

Johnson, Don

44.

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

Cato The Elder

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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

46.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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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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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