Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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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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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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

Auden, W. H.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Johnson, Don

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Blake, William

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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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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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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

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Dave Kellett