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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

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

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

Davis, Bette

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

Hellman, Lillian

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)

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

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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Don

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

33.

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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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.