Motivational Quotes

Fame

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Alexander The Great

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

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

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

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

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

Chuang-tzu

11.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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

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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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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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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 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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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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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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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Madonna

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Blake, William

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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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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 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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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