Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Pope, Alexander

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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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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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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

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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 short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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

15.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

16.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

17.

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

Blake, William

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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

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

Madonna

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward 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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

30.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Chuang-tzu

38.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

39.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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