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

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

Laura Preble

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Madonna

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

10.

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

Alexander The Great

11.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

12.

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

Ellinger, Jules

13.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Huxley, Aldous

15.

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

Wolcot, John

16.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

19.

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Chuang-tzu

25.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

26.

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

Hazlitt, William

27.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

28.

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

29.

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

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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

31.

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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Villiers, George

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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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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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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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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

40.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

47.

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

Johnson, Don

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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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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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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.