Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Proverb, Chinese

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Voltaire

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Dave Kellett

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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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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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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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.