Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Laura Preble

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sade, Marquis De

10.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

11.

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

Huxley, Aldous

12.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

13.

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

14.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

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

22.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Auden, W. H.

27.

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

28.

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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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

30.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

31.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

32.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

33.

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

Johnson, Don

34.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

35.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Cato The Elder

37.

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

38.

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

Capote, Truman

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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

43.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

47.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

48.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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