Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Madonna

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

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

Warhol, Andy

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Rosie O'Donnell

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

11.

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Johnson, Don

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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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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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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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Miller, Henry

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

Sewell, Thomas

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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

24.

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

Davis, Bette

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pound, Ezra

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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