Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Warhol, Andy

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Blake, William

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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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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

21.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

22.

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

23.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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 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

30.

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

31.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

40.

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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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

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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 love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

45.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

49.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von