Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baum, Vicki

11.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

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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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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

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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

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

Dave Kellett

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

Warhol, Andy

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Madonna

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

Blake, William

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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

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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.

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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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Byron, Lord

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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