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

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

Johnson, Don

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Baum, Vicki

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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

Warhol, Andy

12.

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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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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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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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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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

17.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Chuang-tzu

21.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

22.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

23.

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

Pound, Ezra

24.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

25.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

30.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

31.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

33.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

34.

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

35.

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

Villiers, George

36.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Ellinger, Jules

38.

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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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

40.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

41.

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

Dave Kellett

42.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

Sade, Marquis De

45.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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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

47.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.