Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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

Sewell, Thomas

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Pound, Ezra

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Huxley, Aldous

11.

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

Wolcot, John

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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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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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.

16.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Laura Preble

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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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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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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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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

33.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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

Cato The Elder

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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 was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Johnson, Don

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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

48.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.