Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Chuang-tzu

Best Quotes about Fame

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.

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

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

William Shakespeare

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Davis, Bette

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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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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis 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 strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Johnson, Don

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Dave Kellett

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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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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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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, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great