Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Voltaire

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

Auden, W. H.

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

17.

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

Madonna

18.

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

Wolcot, John

19.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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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

21.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

22.

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

Laura Preble

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Pound, Ezra

27.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

28.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

30.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

31.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Huxley, Aldous

34.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cato The Elder

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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

45.

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

Chuang-tzu

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

47.

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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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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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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki