Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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.

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

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 the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

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

Madonna

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

Voltaire

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

Blake, William

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

18.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Davis, Bette

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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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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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 glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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