Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Blake, William

10.

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

Benjamin Haydon

11.

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

Johnson, Don

12.

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

14.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

15.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

17.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

18.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

20.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

21.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

22.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Alexander The Great

24.

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

25.

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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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.

27.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

28.

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

29.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Pope, Alexander

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Chuang-tzu

36.

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

Warhol, Andy

37.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

42.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

43.

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

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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

45.

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

Madonna

46.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

47.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

48.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Auden, W. H.