Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

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

Laura Preble

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Huxley, Aldous

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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, 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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Blake, William

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

Johnson, Don

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Capote, Truman

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Voltaire

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Pope, Alexander