Motivational Quotes

Fame

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

- Pitt, Brad

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Benjamin Haydon

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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

Voltaire

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

Baum, Vicki

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

11.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

12.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

17.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

43.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

44.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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 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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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