Motivational Quotes

Fame

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

10.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Rivarol, Antoine

15.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Hazlitt, William

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Voltaire

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

Hellman, Lillian

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur