Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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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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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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Alexander The Great

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