Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Don

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Madonna

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Blake, William

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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.

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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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.