Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Carver, George Washington

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

12.

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

Capote, Truman

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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

14.

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

Blake, William

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

18.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Alexander The Great

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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

Dave Kellett

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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius