Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Chuang-tzu

Best Quotes about Fame

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Johnson, Don

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

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)

10.

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

Pound, Ezra

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 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

18.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

19.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

23.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

24.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Davis, Miles

26.

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 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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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

29.

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.

30.

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

Cato The Elder

31.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Benjamin Haydon

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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

40.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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 thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.