Motivational Quotes

Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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

Davis, Bette

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hellman, Lillian

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Dave Kellett

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Madonna

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Voltaire

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.