Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

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

Capote, Truman

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

Voltaire

12.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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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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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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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

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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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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

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Johnson, Don

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Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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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

29.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

32.

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

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Wolcot, John

49.

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

Blake, William

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