Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Chuang-tzu

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Don

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Alexander The Great

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Blake, William

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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

Shakespeare, William

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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Davis, Bette

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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