Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Villiers, George

Best Quotes about Fame

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Madonna

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Capote, Truman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hazlitt, William

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Cato The Elder

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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.