Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Fame

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Wolcot, John

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Chuang-tzu

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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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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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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