Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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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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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 is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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