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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Johnson, Don

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

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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-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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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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 glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

16.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Capote, Truman

24.

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

30.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

31.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

32.

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

Hellman, Lillian

33.

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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Voltaire

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

42.

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

Cato The Elder

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

46.

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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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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

Villiers, George

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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.