Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Fame

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.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Madonna

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wolcot, John

35.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Warhol, Andy

40.

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Blake, William

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.