Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

11.

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

Warhol, Andy

12.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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

18.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

19.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

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

21.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Rivarol, Antoine

28.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

34.

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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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

36.

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

Chuang-tzu

37.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

44.

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

Huxley, Aldous

46.

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

Laura Preble

47.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

48.

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