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

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

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

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

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.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Baum, Vicki

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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

11.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

12.

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

Laura Preble

13.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

15.

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

16.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

17.

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

18.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Mills, C. Wright

21.

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

Blake, William

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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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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

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

26.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

27.

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)

28.

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

29.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

30.

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

31.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

32.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

33.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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

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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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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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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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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

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

48.

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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur