Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Laura Preble

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

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

Auden, W. H.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Benjamin Haydon

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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 short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Hazlitt, William

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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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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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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!