Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Huxley, Aldous

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Capote, Truman

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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.

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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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

14.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

15.

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

16.

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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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

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

20.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

25.

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

Laura Preble

26.

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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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

28.

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

Hellman, Lillian

30.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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

32.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

33.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

37.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Blake, William

40.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

41.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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

47.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De