Motivational Quotes

Fame

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.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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.

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

Villiers, George

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

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Hellman, Lillian

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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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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If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Johnson, Don

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

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

Dave Kellett

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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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

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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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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

41.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

42.

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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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