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

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

Laura Preble

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Davis, Miles

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Voltaire

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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 a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

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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

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

Dave Kellett

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Wolcot, John

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Alexander The Great

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

Pound, Ezra

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