Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

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

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)

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

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Dave Kellett

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

Johnson, Don

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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

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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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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.