Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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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.

12.

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

Johnson, Don

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

Blake, William

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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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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

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

23.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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.

25.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

26.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Dave Kellett

33.

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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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Voltaire

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Madonna

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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

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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 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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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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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