Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Davis, Bette

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Blake, William

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Mills, C. Wright

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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, 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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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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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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 life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dave Kellett

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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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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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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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