Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Vanderbilt, Gloria

Best Quotes about Fame

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Hazlitt, William

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 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

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Shakespeare, William

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Villiers, George

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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

19.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

31.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Davis, Miles

33.

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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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 was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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'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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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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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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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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