Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Dave Kellett

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

Wolcot, John

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sade, Marquis De

23.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

28.

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

Alexander The Great

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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

30.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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)

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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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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Madonna

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Voltaire

46.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell