Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

12.

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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

15.

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

Madonna

16.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

17.

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

Villiers, George

18.

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.

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

Blake, William

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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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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 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

27.

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

28.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

29.

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

Pound, Ezra

30.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

31.

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.

32.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Davis, Miles

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

38.

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

39.

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

Benjamin Haydon

40.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

41.

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

42.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

43.

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

44.

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

Laura Preble

45.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

46.

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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

48.

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

49.

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

Davis, Bette

50.

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.