Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Davis, Bette

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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)

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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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

11.

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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

35.

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

Voltaire

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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.