Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Fame

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 proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte 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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Dave Kellett

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo