Motivational Quotes

Fame

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Wolcot, John

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Baum, Vicki

12.

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

Madonna

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

27.

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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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

29.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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

Johnson, Don

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

Alexander The Great

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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.