Motivational Quotes

Fame

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnson, Don

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

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Dave Kellett

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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 thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Blake, William

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

21.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Davis, Bette

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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 many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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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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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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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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