Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Fame

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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

Rivarol, Antoine

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Villiers, George

16.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

17.

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.

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

20.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

21.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

22.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

23.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Madonna

26.

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

Pope, Alexander

28.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

30.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Huxley, Aldous

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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

39.

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

40.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Blake, William

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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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.

48.

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

Baum, Vicki

50.

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