Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Fame

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)

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

Madonna

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

Wolcot, John

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

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

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

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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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The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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

Hazlitt, 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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Sade, Marquis 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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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

50.

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