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

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Pope, Alexander

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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

Cato The Elder

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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Capote, Truman

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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 is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Johnson, Don

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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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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

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dave Kellett

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rivarol, Antoine

43.

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

44.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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

Chuang-tzu