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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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Best Quotes about Fame

1.
You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
Dave Kellett

2.
Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.
Wynette, Tammy

3.
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.

4.
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

5.
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

6.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

7.
A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
Boorstin, Daniel J.

8.
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
Chuang-tzu

9.
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

10.
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Lessing, Doris

11.
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
Sade, Marquis De

12.
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
Voltaire

14.
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
Alexander The Great

15.
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

16.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Mills, C. Wright

17.
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

18.
Fame is a constant effort
Renard, Jules

19.
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

20.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Parkinson, Cecil

21.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Cicero, Marcus T.

22.
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

23.
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

24.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Baum, Vicki

25.
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Franklin, Benjamin

26.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Hellman, Lillian

27.
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

28.
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

29.
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
Benjamin Haydon

30.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.
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

32.
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

33.
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Martial, Marcus Valerius

34.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Davis, Bette

35.
I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.
Madonna

36.
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

37.
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

38.
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

39.
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.
Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

40.
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

41.
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

42.
Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo

43.
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

44.
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.
Fame is the thirst of youth.
Byron, Lord

46.
If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?
Laura Preble

47.
Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
Picasso, Pablo

48.
I want to be famous everywhere.
Pavarotti, Luciano

49.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Cato The Elder

50.
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


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