Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Johnson, Don

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Laura Preble

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

Sade, Marquis De

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur