Motivational Quotes

Fame

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

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

Blake, William

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

Madonna

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

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

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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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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 want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Villiers, George

20.

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

Davis, Bette

21.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

24.

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

Cato The Elder

25.

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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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

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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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.