Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

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

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wolcot, John

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

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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Cato The Elder

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Don

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Auden, W. H.

25.

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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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

30.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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

Warhol, Andy

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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