Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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

Capote, Truman

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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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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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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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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

35.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dave Kellett

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan