Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Chuang-tzu

Best Quotes about Fame

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Blake, William

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.

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

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

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

Johnson, Don

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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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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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 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

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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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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..