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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Cato The Elder

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

12.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

13.

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

Wolcot, John

14.

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 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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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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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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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

19.

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

Madonna

20.

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

Dave Kellett

21.

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

22.

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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

26.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

27.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Capote, Truman

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

Hazlitt, William

42.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

43.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur