Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Fame

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Davis, Bette

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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)

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Blake, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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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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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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

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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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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

Chuang-tzu

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Wolcot, John

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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

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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 want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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