Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Voltaire

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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

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

Wolcot, John

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William