Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Johnson, Don

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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 was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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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 is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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