Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Voltaire

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Proverb, Chinese

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

10.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

11.

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

Warhol, Andy

12.

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

Villiers, George

15.

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

Pound, Ezra

16.

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

17.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

18.

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

19.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

20.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

23.

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

24.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

25.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Alexander The Great

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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 a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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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

36.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

39.

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

Davis, Miles

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

Madonna

42.

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)

43.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

48.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

49.

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

Blake, William