Motivational Quotes

Fame

I was the only one there I never heard of.

- Farber, Barry J.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Johnson, Don

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

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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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Wolcot, John

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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

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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 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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Blake, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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 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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cato The Elder

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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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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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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil