Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Dave Kellett

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Warhol, Andy

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Hazlitt, William

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Chuang-tzu

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

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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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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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

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.