Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Blake, William

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Villiers, George

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

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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.

11.

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

12.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

13.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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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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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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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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

25.

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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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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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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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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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.

44.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warhol, Andy

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Benjamin Haydon