Motivational Quotes

Fame

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.

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

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

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

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

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

13.

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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

15.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

20.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

21.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

22.

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

Huxley, Aldous

23.

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

Laura Preble

24.

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

Blake, William

25.

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

Pound, Ezra

26.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Davis, Bette

30.

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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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.

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

Baum, Vicki

35.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

36.

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

Wolcot, John

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

39.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

42.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

43.

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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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.

45.

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.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Voltaire

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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John