Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Dave Kellett

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

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

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

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

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Davis, Bette

11.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

12.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

14.

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

Sade, Marquis De

15.

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

16.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

17.

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

18.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

19.

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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

Madonna

23.

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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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

25.

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

Hazlitt, William

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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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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

31.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

32.

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

33.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

35.

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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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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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

38.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

39.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

40.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

41.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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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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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.

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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

45.

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

46.

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

Capote, Truman

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