Motivational Quotes

Fame

I was the only one there I never heard of.

- Farber, Barry J.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

12.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Auden, W. H.

17.

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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

19.

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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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

21.

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

Sade, Marquis De

22.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

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

Madonna

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

Hellman, Lillian

27.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

28.

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

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

40.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

41.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

42.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.