Motivational Quotes

Fame

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Fame

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baum, Vicki

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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

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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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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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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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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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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

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Voltaire

31.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

32.

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

Sade, Marquis De

33.

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

Dave Kellett

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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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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

41.

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

Johnson, Don

42.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

43.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

44.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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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To many fame comes too late.