Motivational Quotes

Fame

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Fame

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

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

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

Davis, Miles

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Cato The Elder

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Voltaire

10.

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

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

13.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

14.

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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

16.

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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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

18.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Wolcot, John

20.

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

21.

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

Blake, William

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

25.

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

26.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

28.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

30.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

32.

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

33.

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

34.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

35.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

36.

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

37.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

38.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

39.

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

40.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Pound, Ezra

45.

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

46.

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

Hazlitt, William

47.

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

Alexander The Great

48.

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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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

50.

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

Laura Preble