Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Fame

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

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

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

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

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Sade, Marquis De

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Wolcot, John

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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To many fame comes too late.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Davis, Bette

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

Hazlitt, William