Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is the thirst of youth.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Davis, Miles

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Voltaire

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Madonna

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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 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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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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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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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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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

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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

43.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Alexander The Great

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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.