Motivational Quotes

Fame

I was the only one there I never heard of.

- Farber, Barry J.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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

Baum, Vicki

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

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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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 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 the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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.

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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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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

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Voltaire

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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

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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.