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

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

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

Alexander The Great

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

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

Madonna

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

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

10.

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

Cato The Elder

11.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

26.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Dave Kellett

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chuang-tzu

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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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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

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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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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