Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Fame

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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

Cato The Elder

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

24.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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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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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.