Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Blake, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dave Kellett

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

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

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

Voltaire

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo