Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Auden, W. H.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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 is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

10.

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

Ellinger, Jules

11.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

12.

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.

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

Cato The Elder

14.

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

15.

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

Wolcot, John

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

19.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dave Kellett

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

27.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

28.

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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Madonna

32.

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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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Alexander The Great

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

Johnson, Don

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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

Rivarol, Antoine

49.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon