Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Dave Kellett

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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

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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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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Madonna

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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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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

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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Salma Hayek

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Capote, Truman

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

Warhol, Andy

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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