Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Wolcot, John

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

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

William Shakespeare

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

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

Mills, C. Wright

10.

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.

11.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Cato The Elder

15.

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

16.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

17.

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

Benjamin Haydon

18.

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

Capote, Truman

19.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

20.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

21.

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

Dave Kellett

22.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

26.

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

Huxley, Aldous

27.

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

28.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Baum, Vicki

32.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

33.

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

Johnson, Don

34.

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

35.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

38.

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

Voltaire

39.

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

Pound, Ezra

40.

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

41.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

43.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

46.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

47.

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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

49.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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