Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

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

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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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

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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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Alexander The Great

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.