Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Johnson, Don

Best Quotes about Fame

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Ellinger, Jules

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Cato The Elder

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

Blake, William

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

10.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

11.

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

12.

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

Baum, Vicki

13.

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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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

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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

21.

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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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

28.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Alexander The Great

30.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

31.

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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

33.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

34.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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.

40.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

42.

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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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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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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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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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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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

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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