Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Shakespeare, William

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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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

11.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

12.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Alexander The Great

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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

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

Chuang-tzu

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

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

Dave Kellett

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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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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

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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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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 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