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

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

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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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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dave Kellett

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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.

Garland, Judy

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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

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Madonna

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Voltaire

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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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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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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