Motivational Quotes

Fame

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Fame

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Caussin, Nicolas

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Voltaire

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

10.

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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

12.

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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Dave Kellett

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Capote, Truman

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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 glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Madonna

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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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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

34.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Laura Preble

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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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 proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo