Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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.

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

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

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

Wolcot, John

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

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

Cato The Elder

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Voltaire

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Capote, Truman

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Davis, Bette

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.