Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Fame

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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.

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

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Dave Kellett

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Blake, William

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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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

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Johnson, Don

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The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas