Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

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

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

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis 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 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 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 love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baum, Vicki

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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 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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.