Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Baum, Vicki

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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.

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

Alexander The Great

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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dave Kellett

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Blake, William

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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)

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte 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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius