Motivational Quotes

Fame

I had it all and blew it.

- Mantle, Mickey

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Alexander The Great

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

10.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

11.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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

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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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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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You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

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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

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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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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 love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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

Davis, Bette

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Chuang-tzu

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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