Motivational Quotes

Fame

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

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

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

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

11.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Voltaire

19.

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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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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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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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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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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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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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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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

40.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Dave Kellett

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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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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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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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.