Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Wolcot, John

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Davis, Miles

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

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

Villiers, George

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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Hazlitt, William

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Davis, Bette

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

Warhol, Andy

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Blake, William

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Cato The Elder

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

Laura Preble

35.

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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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wolcot, John

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

Johnson, Don

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.