Motivational Quotes

Fame

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Parkinson, Cecil

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

10.

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

Davis, Bette

11.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

14.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Capote, Truman

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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

25.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Hellman, Lillian

27.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

28.

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

Voltaire

30.

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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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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.

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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Alexander The Great

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

Chuang-tzu

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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