Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Blake, William

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ellinger, Jules

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Davis, Miles

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

12.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

13.

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

Pound, Ezra

14.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

15.

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

16.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

19.

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

Pope, Alexander

20.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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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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

25.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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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.

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.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

30.

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

Baum, Vicki

34.

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

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

36.

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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

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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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

42.

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

Sade, Marquis De

43.

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

44.

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

45.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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

48.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Madonna

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo