Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Madonna

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Warhol, Andy

40.

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

Blake, William

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chuang-tzu

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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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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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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 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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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