Motivational Quotes

Fame

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Fame

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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

Johnson, Don

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

Dave Kellett

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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

Blake, William

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)