Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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.

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

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

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

Johnson, Don

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Auden, W. H.

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

10.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Ellinger, Jules

12.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

13.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

14.

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

Madonna

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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

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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

22.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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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, 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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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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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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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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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria