Motivational Quotes

Fame

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

- Wynette, Tammy

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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

Pope, Alexander

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Dave Kellett

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

William Shakespeare