Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Fame

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Dave Kellett

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

Chuang-tzu

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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Blake, William

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

Hellman, Lillian

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Don

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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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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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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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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Madonna

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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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.