Motivational Quotes

Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

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

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

Auden, W. H.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Voltaire

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

Laura Preble

10.

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

Sade, Marquis De

11.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Capote, Truman

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Dave Kellett

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Davis, Bette

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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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

Chuang-tzu