Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

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

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Alexander The Great

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Laura Preble

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Madonna

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

Blake, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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 want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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