Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

William Shakespeare

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

10.

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

Alexander The Great

11.

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

12.

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

Capote, Truman

13.

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

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Johnson, Don

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

18.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Caussin, Nicolas

27.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

28.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

32.

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

33.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

34.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sewell, Thomas

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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

40.

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

Blake, William

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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.

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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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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)

45.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

46.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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

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

Dave Kellett