Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Don

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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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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

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Madonna

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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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

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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.