Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Blake, William

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

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

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

18.

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

19.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Mills, C. Wright

23.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

24.

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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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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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

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

29.

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

Johnson, Don

30.

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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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

38.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

47.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Rivarol, Antoine

49.

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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.