Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

Best Quotes about Fame

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)

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

Davis, Bette

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

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

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Baum, Vicki

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

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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

27.

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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Madonna

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

Benjamin Haydon

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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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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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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Laura Preble

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Johnson, Don

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

Warhol, Andy

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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 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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Pound, Ezra