Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is the thirst of youth.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Madonna

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

Huxley, Aldous

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Pope, Alexander

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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

Johnson, Don

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

10.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

11.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Blake, William

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

Villiers, George

18.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wolcot, John