Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Fame

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Davis, Bette

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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 is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Madonna

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

Laura Preble

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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