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

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Davis, Miles

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

Voltaire

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward 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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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Davis, Bette

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

Warhol, Andy

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Don

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

Sewell, Thomas

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Alexander The Great

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

Madonna

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baum, Vicki

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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nabokov, Vladimir