Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Benjamin Haydon

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

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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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

11.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Chuang-tzu

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

17.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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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

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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.

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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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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

35.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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

39.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.