Motivational Quotes

Fame

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Blake, William

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

11.

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 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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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

14.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

15.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

16.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

21.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

22.

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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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

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

Madonna

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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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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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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.

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

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

Hazlitt, William

33.

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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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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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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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 want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Pound, Ezra

40.

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

41.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

42.

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

Warhol, Andy

43.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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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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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

48.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

49.

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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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