Motivational Quotes

Fame

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

- Davis, Miles

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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)

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

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

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

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Laura Preble

14.

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

Capote, Truman

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dave Kellett

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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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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Auden, W. H.

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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

43.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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