Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Laura Preble

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

Warhol, Andy

10.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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

Voltaire

21.

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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Pound, Ezra

25.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

26.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

30.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

31.

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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Alexander The Great

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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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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.