Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Villiers, George

10.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

11.

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

12.

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

Mills, C. Wright

13.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

Sade, Marquis De

15.

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

Ellinger, Jules

16.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

21.

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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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

23.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

24.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

25.

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

Dave Kellett

26.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

28.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

29.

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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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

31.

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

Blake, William

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

34.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

35.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

36.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

37.

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

Auden, W. H.

38.

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

Alexander The Great

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

44.

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

45.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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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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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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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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