Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Capote, Truman

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Davis, Bette

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Dave Kellett

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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

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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 thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Madonna

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

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

Blake, William

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Don

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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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