Motivational Quotes

Fame

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Fame

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Johnson, Don

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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'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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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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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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 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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.