Motivational Quotes

Fame

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Laura Preble

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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

11.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

12.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Blake, William

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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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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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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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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward 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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

43.

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

Capote, Truman

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The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

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

Wolcot, John

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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.