Motivational Quotes

Fame

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Blake, William

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Dave Kellett

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Chuang-tzu

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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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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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.