Motivational Quotes

Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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.

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.

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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Dave Kellett

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Blake, William

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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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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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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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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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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