Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Mills, C. Wright

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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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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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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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)

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

Davis, Bette

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

Huxley, Aldous

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Blake, William

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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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 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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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.