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

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

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

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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

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

Wolcot, John

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

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

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Madonna

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

42.

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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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