Motivational Quotes

Fame

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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 but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Benjamin Haydon

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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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You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Sewell, 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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Madonna

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

Blake, William

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Johnson, Don

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

Sade, Marquis 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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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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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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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