Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Warhol, Andy

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

15.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

18.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

19.

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

Dave Kellett

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Wolcot, John

24.

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

25.

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

27.

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

28.

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

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Parkinson, Cecil

31.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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

35.

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

Davis, Bette

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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Voltaire

39.

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

40.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

43.

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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

45.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.