Motivational Quotes

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)

Best Quotes about Fame

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Blake, 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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

10.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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.

14.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

15.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

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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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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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

Warhol, Andy

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

37.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Capote, Truman

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 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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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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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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I had it all and blew it.