Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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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 the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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Roth, Philip

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Auden, W. H.

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