Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

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

Baum, Vicki

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Davis, Bette

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

Dave Kellett

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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

21.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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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

41.

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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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