Motivational Quotes

Fame

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

- Wynette, Tammy

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Cato The Elder

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.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Rosie O'Donnell

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Blake, William

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

10.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

11.

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

12.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

13.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

18.

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

Johnson, Don

20.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

21.

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

22.

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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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

Dave Kellett

30.

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

Baum, Vicki

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, 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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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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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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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

41.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

45.

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