Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Johnson, Don

Best Quotes about Fame

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Madonna

10.

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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

Blake, 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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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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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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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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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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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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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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 is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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