Motivational Quotes

Fame

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

- Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

Best Quotes about Fame

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Auden, W. H.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

21.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

24.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Johnson, Don

48.

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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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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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas