Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Cato The Elder

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Capote, Truman

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

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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.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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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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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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 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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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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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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You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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