Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Fame

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Madonna

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

William Shakespeare

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Alexander The Great

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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

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Voltaire

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

Davis, Bette

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benjamin Haydon

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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 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

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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

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

Wolcot, John

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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