Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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)

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Alexander The Great

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

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cato The Elder

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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 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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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Auden, W. H.

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.