Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Vanderbilt, Gloria

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Wolcot, John

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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.

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Sade, Marquis 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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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Blake, William

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

Madonna

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Johnson, Don

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

46.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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