Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

10.

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

11.

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

Davis, Bette

12.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Blake, William

17.

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

18.

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

19.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

20.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Rivarol, Antoine

22.

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

23.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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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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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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

28.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

29.

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

30.

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

Baum, Vicki

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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.

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

Alexander The Great

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

37.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

38.

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

Warhol, Andy

39.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

40.

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

Dave Kellett

41.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

42.

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

Sewell, Thomas

43.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

45.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

46.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

47.

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

Johnson, Don

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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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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

50.

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