Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carver, George Washington

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

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

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

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

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

10.

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

11.

Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte 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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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

14.

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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

16.

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 proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Dave Kellett

19.

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

Blake, William

20.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

Johnson, Don

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

25.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

27.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

28.

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

29.

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

Madonna

30.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

31.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

37.

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

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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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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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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

43.

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

Warhol, Andy

44.

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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.