Motivational Quotes

Fame

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rivarol, Antoine

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Davis, Bette

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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)

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

Johnson, Don

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Sade, Marquis 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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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 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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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

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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.

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Warhol, Andy

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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