Motivational Quotes

Fame

Popular applause veers with the wind.

- Bright, John

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

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

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

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

Wolcot, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.