Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Fame

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Voltaire

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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)

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Davis, Bette

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wolcot, John

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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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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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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

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

Alexander The Great

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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Blake, 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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Capote, Truman

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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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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