Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Caussin, Nicolas

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Madonna

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

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

Wolcot, John

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

10.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Dave Kellett

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

28.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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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

32.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Laura Preble

37.

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

Johnson, Don

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

41.

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

Hazlitt, William

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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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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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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

47.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Pound, Ezra