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

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

Baum, Vicki

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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)

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Capote, Truman

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Villiers, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Madonna

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Johnson, Don

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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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

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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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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

31.

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

Wolcot, John

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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