Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Johnson, Don

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

Proverb, Chinese

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wolcot, John

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

Voltaire

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Capote, Truman

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

Baum, Vicki

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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri