Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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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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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Auden, W. H.

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Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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 is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Madonna

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Capote, Truman

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