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

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

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Davis, Bette

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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 had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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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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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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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 is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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