Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Fame

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Benjamin Haydon

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

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

Dave Kellett

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Johnson, Don

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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.

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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Davis, Miles

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Laura Preble

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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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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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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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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 won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Alexander The Great

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria