Motivational Quotes

Fame

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Capote, Truman

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

Chuang-tzu

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

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

Sade, Marquis 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

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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, 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

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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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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

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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

18.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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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

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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

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

Wolcot, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Madonna

31.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Pound, Ezra

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