Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Davis, Bette

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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 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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Cato The Elder

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dave Kellett

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Blake, William

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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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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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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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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