Motivational Quotes

Fame

I had it all and blew it.

- Mantle, Mickey

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Davis, Bette

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Cato The Elder

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

18.

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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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 a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Johnson, Don

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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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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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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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