Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about 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

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

Warhol, Andy

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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.

10.

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

11.

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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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

13.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

14.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Mills, C. Wright

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

20.

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

Madonna

21.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Benjamin Haydon

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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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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

32.

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

Davis, Bette

33.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

35.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

36.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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 love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!