Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is the thirst of youth.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Villiers, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

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

Warhol, Andy

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Sade, Marquis De

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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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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 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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hazlitt, William

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pound, Ezra

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Madonna

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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)