Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Johnson, Don

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Voltaire

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 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

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)

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Davis, Bette

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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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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Blake, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Laura Preble

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

Warhol, Andy