Motivational Quotes

Fame

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

- Dave Kellett

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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

21.

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

Wolcot, John

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Davis, Bette

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Capote, Truman

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

Cato The Elder

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

Johnson, Don

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Pope, Alexander