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

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

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Sade, Marquis De

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Johnson, Don

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

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

12.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Pound, Ezra

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Davis, Bette

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

Hellman, Lillian

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

24.

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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Blake, William

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

41.

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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Capote, Truman

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

Dave Kellett

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

Alexander The Great