Motivational Quotes

Fame

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

- Mills, C. Wright

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

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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

Benjamin Haydon

11.

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

Johnson, Don

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Warhol, Andy

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Dave Kellett

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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 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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.