Motivational Quotes

Fame

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.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Mills, C. Wright

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

10.

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

11.

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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

13.

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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

15.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

18.

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.

19.

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

Sade, Marquis De

20.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

21.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

22.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

24.

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

25.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

27.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Carver, George Washington

30.

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

31.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

33.

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 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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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.