Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Fame

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Davis, Bette

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Davis, Miles

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.

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Blake, William

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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Pound, Ezra

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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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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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Alexander The Great

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius