Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Baum, Vicki

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.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

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

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

Blake, William

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

10.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

11.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Cato The Elder

14.

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

15.

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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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

17.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

21.

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

Davis, Miles

22.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Chuang-tzu

25.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

26.

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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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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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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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

31.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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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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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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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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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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

38.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Wolcot, John

45.

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