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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
Fame Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Fame

1.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Erasmus, Desiderius

2.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Parkinson, Cecil

3.
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Lessing, Doris

4.
Acquaintance lessens fame.
Claudius

5.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
Hazlitt, William

6.
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

7.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Mills, C. Wright

8.
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

9.
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.

10.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Hellman, Lillian

11.
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare

12.
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.
If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?
Laura Preble

14.
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
Davis, Miles

15.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
Johnson, Don

17.
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

18.
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

19.
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
Alexander The Great

20.
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

21.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

22.
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Blake, William

23.
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
Villiers, George

24.
Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.
Wynette, Tammy

25.
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

26.
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
Ovid

27.
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Caussin, Nicolas

28.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.
You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
Dave Kellett

30.
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Cioran, E. M.

31.
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
Proverb, French

32.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Huxley, Aldous

33.
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.

34.
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

35.
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

36.
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

37.
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

38.
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

39.
When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Carver, George Washington

40.
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

41.
Popular applause veers with the wind.
Bright, John

42.
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
Sade, Marquis De

43.
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

44.
A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
Boorstin, Daniel J.

45.
I want to be famous everywhere.
Pavarotti, Luciano

46.
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

47.
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

48.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Cicero, Marcus T.

50.
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Martial, Marcus Valerius


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