Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is the thirst of youth.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Fame

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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.

Garland, Judy

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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 short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Johnson, Don

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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.

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

Voltaire

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Alexander The Great

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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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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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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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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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 proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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