Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Benjamin Haydon

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dave Kellett

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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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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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Johnson, Don

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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

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

Alexander The Great

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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

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Auden, W. H.

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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 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

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Blake, William

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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?