Motivational Quotes

Fame

I want to be famous everywhere.

- Pavarotti, Luciano

Best Quotes about Fame

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Warhol, Andy

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

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

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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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

11.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

12.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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

14.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

15.

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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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

17.

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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

20.

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

21.

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

Capote, Truman

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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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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Baum, Vicki

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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

30.

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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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 follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

37.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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 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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

42.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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