Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Davis, Bette

Best Quotes about Fame

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 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

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

Villiers, George

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Voltaire

10.

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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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

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cato The Elder

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Johnson, Don

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius