Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Capote, Truman

Best Quotes about Fame

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Capote, Truman

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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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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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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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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Baum, Vicki

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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.

31.

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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Alexander The Great

34.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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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

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

Madonna

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

Voltaire

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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.