Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Johnson, Don

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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

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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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Colton, Charles Caleb

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Madonna

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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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 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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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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.

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.