Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

17.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

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

Madonna

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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.