Motivational Quotes

Fame

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Fame

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Caussin, Nicolas

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Parkinson, Cecil

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Chuang-tzu

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

10.

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

11.

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

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

13.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

15.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

16.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

20.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

21.

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

22.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

25.

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

Davis, Bette

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

28.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

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

Baum, Vicki

32.

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

33.

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

Sade, Marquis De

34.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

35.

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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

38.

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

39.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

40.

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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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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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pound, Ezra

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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur