Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Davis, Bette

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Johnson, Don

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

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

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

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

12.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Madonna

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

Blake, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

34.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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