Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Benjamin Haydon

10.

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

Blake, William

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Wolcot, John

13.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

14.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

15.

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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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

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

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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

20.

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 short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

30.

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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Mills, C. Wright

33.

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

34.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Pound, Ezra

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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Capote, Truman

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Dave Kellett

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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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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

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

Johnson, Don

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld