Motivational Quotes

Fame

I had it all and blew it.

- Mantle, Mickey

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Dave Kellett

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

Blake, William

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

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

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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

10.

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

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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 is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

17.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Capote, Truman

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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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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.

34.

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

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

40.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Voltaire

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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

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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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