Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Voltaire

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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

Madonna

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

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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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 is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alexander The Great

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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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

Auden, W. H.

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Hellman, Lillian

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dave Kellett

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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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