Motivational Quotes

Fame

Popular applause veers with the wind.

- Bright, John

Best Quotes about Fame

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Davis, Bette

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

10.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

11.

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

17.

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

18.

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

Warhol, Andy

19.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

20.

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.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

22.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

27.

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

28.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

29.

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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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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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

32.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Johnson, Don

38.

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

Dave Kellett

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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

Hellman, Lillian

42.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

43.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

48.

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

Laura Preble

49.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.