Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Roth, Philip

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

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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Davis, Miles

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

Voltaire

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

Johnson, Don

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.