Motivational Quotes

Fame

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Caussin, Nicolas

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Rosie O'Donnell

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

10.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

13.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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 longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dave Kellett

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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 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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

27.

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

28.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Hellman, Lillian

31.

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

32.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

38.

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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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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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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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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

48.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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.