Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Proverb, Chinese

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Johnson, Don

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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.

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

Alexander The Great

19.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Dave Kellett

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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

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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.

30.

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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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

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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

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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Carver, George Washington

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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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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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Blake, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

49.

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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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