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 was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Davis, Miles

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

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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Chuang-tzu