Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

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

Dave Kellett

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Baum, Vicki

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

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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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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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 you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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To many fame comes too late.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Johnson, Don

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

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

Hazlitt, William