Motivational Quotes

Fame

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Fame

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carver, George Washington

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Chuang-tzu

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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.

William Shakespeare

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Auden, W. H.

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Madonna

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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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, 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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Johnson, Don

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

Alexander The Great

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Capote, Truman

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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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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