Motivational Quotes

Fame

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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

11.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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

Blake, William

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Dave Kellett

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Capote, Truman

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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Alexander The Great

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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

43.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld