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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Dave Kellett

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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

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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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 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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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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