Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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.

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

Huxley, Aldous

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Davis, Miles

10.

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

11.

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

Cato The Elder

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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

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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

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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

28.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

29.

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 is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

33.

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

Ellinger, Jules

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Voltaire

40.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

41.

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

Dave Kellett

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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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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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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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