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

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

Madonna

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Benjamin Haydon

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Ellinger, Jules

Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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.

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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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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

16.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

17.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

18.

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

19.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

20.

Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

22.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

23.

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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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

25.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Capote, Truman

29.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

30.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

31.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

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

33.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

37.

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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

39.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

48.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.