Motivational Quotes

Fame

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

William Shakespeare

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Baum, Vicki

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Madonna

10.

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 a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Johnson, Don

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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

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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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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

20.

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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Davis, Bette

31.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

32.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

33.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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

Villiers, George

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

Blake, William

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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

50.

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..