Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Cato The Elder

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

Baum, Vicki

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Capote, Truman

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

10.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

11.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

12.

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

Wolcot, John

13.

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

Johnson, Don

14.

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

15.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ellinger, Jules

19.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

31.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

42.

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dave Kellett

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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.