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

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

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

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

Blake, William

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

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Wolcot, John

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Baum, Vicki

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dave Kellett

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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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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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.