Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Wolcot, John

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

Voltaire

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

Mills, C. Wright

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Dave Kellett

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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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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

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Auden, W. H.

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Blake, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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