Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Huxley, Aldous

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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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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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Madonna

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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Warhol, Andy

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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