Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Chuang-tzu

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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

20.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

21.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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

24.

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

25.

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

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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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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

28.

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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

30.

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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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

40.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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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 do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

45.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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