Motivational Quotes

Fame

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Capote, Truman

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Blake, William

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Davis, Bette

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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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

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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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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

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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..

Rostand, Jean