Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Johnson, Don

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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 fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

19.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

20.

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

21.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

22.

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.

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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

24.

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

25.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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

28.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Villiers, George

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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.

31.

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

32.

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

Capote, Truman

33.

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

34.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

46.

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

47.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ellinger, Jules