Motivational Quotes

Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

- Proverb, French

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.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Davis, Miles

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Davis, Bette

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Laura Preble

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

Wolcot, John

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Madonna

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Don

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Blake, William

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.