Motivational Quotes

Fame

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

12.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

15.

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

Davis, Miles

16.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

17.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

19.

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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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

21.

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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Pound, Ezra

24.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

25.

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

Hellman, Lillian

26.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

27.

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

28.

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

Wolcot, John

30.

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.

31.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

32.

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

Davis, Bette

33.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

34.

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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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

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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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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

38.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

45.

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.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

48.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

50.

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

Auden, W. H.