Motivational Quotes

Fame

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

- Pitt, Brad

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

11.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

12.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

13.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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 has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Rivarol, Antoine

31.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Sade, Marquis De

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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Blake, William

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

Davis, Bette