Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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

Villiers, George

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

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

Laura Preble

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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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

16.

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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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

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

Capote, Truman

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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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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 celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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

Dave Kellett

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.