Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

William Shakespeare

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

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Salma Hayek

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

Auden, W. H.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 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

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Alexander The Great

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Warhol, Andy

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Blake, William

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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

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Pound, Ezra

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius