Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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

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

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

10.

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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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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Caussin, Nicolas

14.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Huxley, Aldous

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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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

22.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Villiers, George

27.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Johnson, Don

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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

30.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

36.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

42.

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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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

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

49.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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