Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

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.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

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

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

10.

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

11.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

12.

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

Blake, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Voltaire

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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 a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Miller, Henry

28.

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

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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

30.

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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Cato The Elder

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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

35.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

36.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Sade, Marquis De

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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

42.

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

Davis, Bette

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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

44.

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

Dave Kellett

45.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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

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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian