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

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Sade, Marquis 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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

10.

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

11.

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

Cato The Elder

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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

13.

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

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

Benjamin Haydon

18.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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

Wolcot, John

24.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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)

30.

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

Dave Kellett

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

40.

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

Madonna

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Blake, William

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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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