Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Fame

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Madonna

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pound, Ezra

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

10.

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

Dave Kellett

11.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

12.

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

Sade, Marquis De

13.

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

Pope, Alexander

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

21.

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)

22.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

23.

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

Davis, Bette

24.

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

Benjamin Haydon

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

27.

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

Huxley, Aldous

29.

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

Villiers, George

30.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

31.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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

33.

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

Baum, Vicki

34.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

36.

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

37.

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

Hazlitt, William

38.

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

39.

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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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

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

45.

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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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

47.

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

48.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

49.

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

50.

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