Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Laura Preble

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Ellinger, Jules

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

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

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

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

Davis, Bette

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Sade, Marquis De

15.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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, 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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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

20.

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

Voltaire

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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.

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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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

27.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

28.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.

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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

33.

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.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Auden, W. H.

40.

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

Johnson, Don

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

Alexander The Great

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

Hazlitt, William

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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte 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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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De