Motivational Quotes

Fame

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

- Wynette, Tammy

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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 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

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Johnson, Don

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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 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

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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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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

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Madonna

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Wolcot, John