Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Caussin, Nicolas

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Johnson, Don

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Auden, W. H.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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

Baum, Vicki

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Madonna

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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

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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 is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Alexander The Great