Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Blake, William

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

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Alexander The Great

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Dave Kellett

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

10.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

11.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

12.

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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

15.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

16.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

17.

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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

21.

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

Madonna

22.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

31.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

32.

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

38.

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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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 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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If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

42.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Johnson, Don

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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

48.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

49.

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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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius