Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Mills, C. Wright

10.

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

Madonna

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Rivarol, Antoine

19.

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

20.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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 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

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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 wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Blake, William

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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