Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Capote, Truman

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Baum, Vicki

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

10.

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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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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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

13.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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

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

Chuang-tzu

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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

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

30.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

31.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

32.

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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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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

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

42.

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