Motivational Quotes

Fame

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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 want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Dave Kellett

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

25.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Madonna

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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 but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

34.

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

35.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Wolcot, John

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur