Motivational Quotes

Fame

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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Best Quotes about Fame

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

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

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

Blake, William

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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Dave Kellett

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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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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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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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Hazlitt, William

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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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