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

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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 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

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

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Warhol, Andy

10.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

11.

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

Benjamin Haydon

12.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Johnson, Don

14.

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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

16.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

19.

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

Capote, Truman

20.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

21.

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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

23.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

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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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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

35.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

37.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

38.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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

43.

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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

45.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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