Motivational Quotes

Fame

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

- Benjamin Haydon

Best Quotes about Fame

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

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Davis, Miles

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

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

Capote, Truman

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

12.

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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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 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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Voltaire

25.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sade, Marquis De

35.

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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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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