Motivational Quotes

Fame

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Baum, Vicki

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Madonna

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

Dave Kellett

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Davis, Miles

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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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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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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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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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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

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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