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

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 will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

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)

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

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

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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

11.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

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

Benjamin Haydon

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Madonna

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

44.

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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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 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 only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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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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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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius