Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Hellman, Lillian

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Wolcot, John

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

43.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warhol, Andy

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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