Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Huxley, Aldous

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.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Auden, W. H.

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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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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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, Bette

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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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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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, 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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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

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

Blake, William