Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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

Cato The Elder

10.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

11.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

12.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

13.

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

Madonna

14.

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

Blake, William

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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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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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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 a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Voltaire

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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 but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Don

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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

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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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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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