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

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

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

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Baum, Vicki

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

William Shakespeare

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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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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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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

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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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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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.

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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 want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Laura Preble

39.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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

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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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Hazlitt, William