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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Benjamin Haydon

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 glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Voltaire

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Dave Kellett

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Pound, Ezra

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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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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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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

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

Blake, William

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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.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Davis, Bette

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Baum, Vicki

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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.