Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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

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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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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Auden, W. H.

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dave Kellett

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

Voltaire

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

Cato The Elder

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Huxley, Aldous