Motivational Quotes

Fame

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.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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

Villiers, George

10.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

11.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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-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.

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.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

16.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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

18.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

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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

23.

Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

25.

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

Dave Kellett

26.

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

27.

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

Madonna

28.

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

29.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Sade, Marquis De

31.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

32.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

33.

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

Hazlitt, William

34.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

35.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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

40.

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

41.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

43.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

44.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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