Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Fame

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)

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

Blake, William

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

Wolcot, John

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

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

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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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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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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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

34.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Johnson, Don

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Auden, W. H.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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