Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Davis, Miles

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

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

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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

19.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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

25.

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

Sade, Marquis De

26.

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

Alexander The Great

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

32.

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

Capote, Truman

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Johnson, Don

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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

40.

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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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

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

43.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

44.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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.

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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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey