Motivational Quotes

Fame

To many fame comes too late.

- Camoens, Luis De

Best Quotes about Fame

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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.

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

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

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

11.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Blake, William

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

Warhol, Andy

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

William Shakespeare

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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

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

29.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Baum, Vicki