Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Johnson, Don

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Johnson, Don

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

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

Capote, Truman

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

Carver, George Washington

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Cato The Elder

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Wolcot, John

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Voltaire

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ellinger, Jules