Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Fame

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Davis, Miles

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte 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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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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

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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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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Dave Kellett

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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