Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best Quotes about Fame

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

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

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.

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

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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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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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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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

20.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

31.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Madonna

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Cato The Elder

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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Alexander The Great

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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