Motivational Quotes

Fame

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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Best Quotes about Fame

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Voltaire

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Johnson, Don

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

Wolcot, John

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Dave Kellett

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

Blake, William

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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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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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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria