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)

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Sade, Marquis De

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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.

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

Johnson, Don

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.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

13.

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

14.

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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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

16.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

21.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Pound, Ezra

23.

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

Benjamin Haydon

24.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

25.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

28.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

29.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

30.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

34.

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

Laura Preble

35.

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

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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

37.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

39.

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

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

49.

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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.