Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

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

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

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

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

11.

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

12.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

14.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

18.

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

19.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Capote, Truman

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

31.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

32.

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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sade, Marquis De

42.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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

47.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

48.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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