Motivational Quotes

Fame

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Fame

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Davis, Miles

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Davis, Bette

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

Rivarol, Antoine

32.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Dave Kellett

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

Pound, Ezra

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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.