Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Benjamin Haydon

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dave Kellett

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

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

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

10.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

11.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Blake, William

13.

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

Davis, Bette

14.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

15.

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

Johnson, Don

16.

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

17.

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

Laura Preble

18.

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

Cato The Elder

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

23.

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

Villiers, George

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Capote, Truman

27.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

28.

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

29.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

34.

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

Pound, Ezra

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

41.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

42.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

Hazlitt, William

44.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

45.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

46.

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

Wolcot, John

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

48.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

49.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius