Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Fame

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Shakespeare, William

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

11.

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

Laura Preble

12.

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 is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

16.

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

Dave Kellett

17.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

18.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

19.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

20.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

21.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

25.

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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

30.

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)

31.

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

Davis, Bette

32.

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

Chuang-tzu

33.

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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

37.

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

Sade, Marquis De

38.

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

Blake, William

39.

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

Benjamin Haydon

40.

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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Alexander The Great

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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