Motivational Quotes

Fame

I was the only one there I never heard of.

- Farber, Barry J.

Best Quotes about Fame

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Johnson, Don

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

Blake, William

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.