Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

Auden, W. H.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Davis, Bette

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Capote, Truman

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

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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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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

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

Johnson, Don

18.

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

Warhol, Andy

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

22.

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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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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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.

25.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

30.

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

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

Baum, Vicki

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

34.

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

35.

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

Chuang-tzu

36.

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

Madonna

37.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

40.

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

Dave Kellett

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Blake, William

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

47.

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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The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.