Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Sade, Marquis De

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Baum, Vicki

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

10.

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

11.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

12.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

14.

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

Dave Kellett

15.

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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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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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

18.

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

Mills, C. Wright

19.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Pound, Ezra

24.

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

25.

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

Blake, William

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Voltaire

30.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

32.

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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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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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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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

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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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 love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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