Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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

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

William Shakespeare

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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 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'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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Chuang-tzu

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Dave Kellett

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Alexander The Great

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Warhol, Andy

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey