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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Cato The Elder

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Voltaire

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

10.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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 fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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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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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 a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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