Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hazlitt, William

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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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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 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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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 the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.