Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

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

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

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Blake, William

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

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

Benjamin Haydon

10.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

11.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

15.

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

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Davis, Bette

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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Madonna

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Dave Kellett

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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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