Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Caussin, Nicolas

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Johnson, Don

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

Blake, William

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

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)

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

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

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

Dave Kellett

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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Cato The Elder

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

Laura Preble

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

Alexander The Great

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

42.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

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

Baum, Vicki

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis