Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Johnson, Don

Best Quotes about Fame

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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 had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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 is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, Bette

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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)