Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Pound, Ezra

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

10.

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

11.

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

Carver, George Washington

12.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Warhol, Andy

19.

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.

20.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

21.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

22.

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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

24.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

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

Baum, Vicki

26.

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

Blake, William

27.

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

28.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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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.

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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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

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

Wolcot, John

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Chuang-tzu

37.

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

38.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

40.

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

Laura Preble

41.

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

Sade, Marquis De

42.

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

43.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

44.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

45.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

46.

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

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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

48.

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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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