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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Fame Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Fame

1.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
Hazlitt, William

2.
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Franklin, Benjamin

3.
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

4.
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare

5.
There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
Ellinger, Jules

6.
Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.
Wynette, Tammy

7.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Mills, C. Wright

8.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

9.
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
Nabokov, Vladimir

10.
The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Warhol, Andy

11.
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)

12.
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

13.
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
Proverb, French

14.
Fame is a constant effort
Renard, Jules

15.
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Blake, William

16.
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

17.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
Auden, W. H.

18.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Martial, Marcus Valerius

19.
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.

20.
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Pope, Alexander

21.
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

22.
I had it all and blew it.
Mantle, Mickey

23.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Parkinson, Cecil

24.
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Martial, Marcus Valerius

25.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Vanderbilt, Gloria

26.
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

27.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Hellman, Lillian

28.
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

29.
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
Villiers, George

30.
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

31.
The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

32.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.
When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Carver, George Washington

34.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Cato The Elder

35.
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Rivarol, Antoine

36.
You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
Dave Kellett

37.
A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
Boorstin, Daniel J.

38.
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

39.
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

40.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Cicero, Marcus T.

42.
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

43.
People should realize we're jerks just like them.
Bono, Edward De

44.
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

45.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Huxley, Aldous

46.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
Morrison, Van

47.
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

48.
We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.
Sewell, Thomas

49.
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
Pitt, Brad

50.
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
Chuang-tzu


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