Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Madonna

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Auden, W. H.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Davis, Miles

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

Blake, William

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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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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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

Dave Kellett

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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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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Voltaire

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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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 a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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