Motivational Quotes

Fame

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

- J. K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Davis, Miles

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

10.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

11.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Capote, Truman

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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

17.

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

Sade, Marquis De

18.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

19.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

20.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

21.

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

22.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Cato The Elder

24.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

30.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Voltaire

32.

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

33.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

34.

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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Baum, Vicki

40.

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

41.

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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Auden, W. H.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules