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

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

Mills, C. Wright

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

10.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

19.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

20.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

21.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

24.

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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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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

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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

33.

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

Hazlitt, William

34.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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

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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 a constant effort

Renard, Jules

45.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Auden, W. H.

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.