Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Johnson, Don

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

Voltaire

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

Auden, W. H.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Capote, Truman

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

10.

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

Alexander The Great

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

19.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

20.

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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Blake, William

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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

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

Wolcot, John

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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.