Motivational Quotes

Fame

To many fame comes too late.

- Camoens, Luis De

Best Quotes about 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.

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

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

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

Davis, Miles

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Madonna

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

10.

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

Benjamin Haydon

11.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

12.

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

Blake, William

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

Voltaire

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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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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Villiers, George

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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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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

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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 has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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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

27.

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

Cato The Elder

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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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 the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.