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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Villiers, George

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 too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Dave Kellett

10.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

19.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

25.

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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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 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

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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

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

Johnson, Don