Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Johnson, Don

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, Don

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pope, Alexander

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Blake, William

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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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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

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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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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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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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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

18.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

19.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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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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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

28.

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

31.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

32.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

33.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

34.

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

Dave Kellett

36.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

37.

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Madonna

42.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

43.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Pound, Ezra

45.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

I had it all and blew it.