Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

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

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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.

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

11.

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

Alexander The Great

12.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Warhol, Andy

14.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

15.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

17.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

20.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

21.

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

22.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

27.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

28.

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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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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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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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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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

33.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

34.

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

Blake, William

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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.

38.

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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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

40.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

45.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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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.