Motivational Quotes

Fame

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.

Best Quotes about Fame

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Chuang-tzu

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

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

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

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

Auden, W. H.

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Voltaire

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

Wolcot, John

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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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