Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cato The Elder

11.

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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

14.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

15.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

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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

19.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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 the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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.

33.

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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Davis, Bette

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

Voltaire

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Villiers, George

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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Blake, William

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur