Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Johnson, Don

Best Quotes about Fame

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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

Davis, Miles

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

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

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Johnson, Don

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

10.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

11.

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)

12.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

13.

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

14.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

15.

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

16.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

18.

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

Ellinger, Jules

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Cato The Elder

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

23.

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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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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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

27.

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

Sewell, Thomas

28.

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

Pound, Ezra

29.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

30.

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

31.

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

32.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

33.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

35.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

36.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Carver, George Washington

40.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Auden, W. H.

46.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

47.

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

Capote, Truman

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.