Motivational Quotes

Fame

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

- Smyth, Dame Ethel

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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

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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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Voltaire

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hellman, Lillian

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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

31.

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

Alexander The Great

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Blake, William

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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.