Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Davis, Bette

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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

11.

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

12.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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.

16.

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

Cato The Elder

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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

18.

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

Johnson, Don

19.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rosie O'Donnell

22.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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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

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

Alexander The Great

26.

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

27.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

William Shakespeare

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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

34.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

42.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

43.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

44.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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

46.

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.

47.

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

Dave Kellett

48.

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

Chuang-tzu

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