Motivational Quotes

Fame

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Voltaire

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.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

Madonna

11.

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

12.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

13.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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.

16.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Wolcot, John

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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

19.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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.

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

Davis, Bette

26.

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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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

28.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

29.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

30.

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

31.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

33.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

34.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Johnson, Don

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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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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 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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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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

48.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

49.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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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