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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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)

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

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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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

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Auden, W. H.

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Madonna

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Smyth, Dame Ethel

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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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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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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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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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.