Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Villiers, George

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hazlitt, William

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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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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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

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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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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Mills, C. Wright

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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

Johnson, Don

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Dave Kellett

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.