Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

10.

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Don

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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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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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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

Wolcot, John

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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

39.

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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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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Voltaire

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Alexander The Great

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

Hazlitt, William

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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