Motivational Quotes

Fame

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fame

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

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

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

Blake, William

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

Cato The Elder

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dave Kellett

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

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

Davis, Bette

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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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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

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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.

17.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

30.

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

31.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

41.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

42.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Laura Preble

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