Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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

Davis, Bette

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

Wolcot, John

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Sade, Marquis 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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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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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 often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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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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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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William