Motivational Quotes

Fame

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Fame

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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

Ellinger, Jules

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Davis, Bette

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

Voltaire

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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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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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 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 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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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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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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Cato The Elder

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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Alexander The Great

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

Warhol, Andy

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Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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