Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Auden, W. H.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Pound, Ezra

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.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, Bette

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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

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

Carver, George Washington

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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 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

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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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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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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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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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

Caussin, Nicolas

27.

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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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

Dave Kellett

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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