Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Fame

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Villiers, George

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

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

Blake, William

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Alexander The Great

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Pound, Ezra

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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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

Wolcot, John

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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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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 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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Dave Kellett

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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