Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Chuang-tzu

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

16.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Johnson, Don

18.

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

19.

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

Laura Preble

23.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

30.

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

Voltaire

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

41.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Madonna

43.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hazlitt, William

50.

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