Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wolcot, John

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Voltaire

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

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

Johnson, Don

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Miller, Henry

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Hazlitt, William

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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