Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Blake, William

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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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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dave Kellett

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

Villiers, George

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

Cato The Elder

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Alexander The Great

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

Chuang-tzu

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.