Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Villiers, George

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

Mills, C. Wright

10.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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

19.

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

Capote, Truman

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Davis, Bette

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

32.

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

Blake, William

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Hellman, Lillian

36.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sade, Marquis De

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.