Motivational Quotes

Fame

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

- Rosie O'Donnell

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Alexander The Great

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Laura Preble

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

Johnson, Don

10.

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

11.

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

Chuang-tzu

12.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

17.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

18.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

20.

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

21.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

22.

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

Cato The Elder

23.

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

Pound, Ezra

24.

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

25.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

26.

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

Davis, Miles

27.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

28.

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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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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Blake, William

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

38.

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

39.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

40.

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

41.

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

Capote, Truman

43.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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.