Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

William Shakespeare

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

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Cato The Elder

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

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

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

Blake, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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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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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 proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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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

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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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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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

Johnson, Don

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Sade, Marquis 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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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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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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Voltaire

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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 a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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-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.