Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Blake, William

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

Dave Kellett

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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Johnson, Don

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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 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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.