Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Proverb, Chinese

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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.

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

11.

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

Capote, Truman

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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

15.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

18.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

20.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 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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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

27.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

39.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Johnson, Don

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

47.

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

Chuang-tzu

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Parkinson, Cecil