Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Hazlitt, William

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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)

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

10.

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

Sade, Marquis De

11.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

12.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

13.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

14.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Johnson, Don

17.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Alexander The Great

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

Auden, W. H.

27.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

28.

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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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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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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

33.

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

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Villiers, George

38.

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

Cato The Elder

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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

40.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.