Motivational Quotes

Fame

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Huxley, Aldous

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Hazlitt, William

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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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

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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

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

Johnson, Don

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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

Voltaire

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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 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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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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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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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