Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Villiers, George

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

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.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

10.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Blake, William

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Don

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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

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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

25.

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

Alexander The Great

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

33.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

34.

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

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

42.

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

Hazlitt, William

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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

46.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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