Motivational Quotes

Fame

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

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

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Parkinson, Cecil

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

10.

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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

12.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

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

Davis, Miles

15.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

17.

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

18.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

19.

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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

24.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

25.

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

26.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

27.

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

Madonna

28.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

29.

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

Wolcot, John

30.

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

Auden, W. H.

31.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

32.

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

Hazlitt, William

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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.

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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 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)

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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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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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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

40.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

41.

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

Johnson, Don

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.