Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Alexander The Great

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Auden, W. H.

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.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Madonna

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Davis, Bette

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

20.

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

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

Dave Kellett

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

Cato The Elder

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wolcot, John

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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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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

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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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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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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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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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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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