Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Warhol, Andy

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Villiers, George

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

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Alexander The Great

10.

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

11.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

12.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

13.

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

14.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

15.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

19.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

20.

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.

21.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pound, Ezra

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Dave Kellett

30.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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

33.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

34.

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

Hellman, Lillian

35.

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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

43.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

48.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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